The manager of London’s historic Billingsgate Fish Market who stole nearly £95,000 from traders’ rent to feed his gambling addiction has been jailed for two years and eight months. Roshan Persad, 48, stole the money from the market’s landlord over an 18-month period. Persad, from Hornchurch in Essex, denied the charges but a jury at the Old Bailey found him guilty of six counts of theft, seven of false accounting and one of fraud by abuse of position.
