UK based Nigerian pastor jailed 9-years in Britain's biggest ever education scam - PHOTOS

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UK based Nigerian pastor jailed 9-years in Britain's biggest ever education scam - PHOTOS

A Nigerian, London-based Pastor and accountant, Sam Kayode has been jailed for nine years for stealing £4.1million of British taxpayers' money and lavishing it on four women. The 59-year-old time a part-time pastor spent the cash on his real wife, a second 'wife' and two alleged mistresses.
He bought luxury cars including a Mercedes, an Audi TT sports car and an Infiniti, and is also feared to have sent much of the money to Nigeria.

Kayode blamed the theft on his late wife Grace and an office junior. He claimed they conspired to smear him by transferring the money to his joint account in revenge for his adultery. Kayode spent seven years looting the accounts of Haberdashers' Aske's state schools in south London, now an academy chain acclaimed by the Government.



During those years no questions were asked about the secretive man who locked himself in his office to work late, after arriving in a Mercedes, wearing £500 Gucci shoes and carrying a Louis Vuitton briefcase.

His boss, chief financial officer Paul Durgan, failed to notice a penny missing. He was often lecturing other schools about how to run their finances, while Kayode was transferring school money into his own bank account.

As well as spending money on his real wife Grace's private health care - until her death aged 53, in 2013 - he also signed documents showing he was making investments with Miss Halima, and renting flats in Kent for 'partners' Toyin Lawal and Yetunde Turtak.