An estate agent and two mortgage brokers have been sentenced following a huge mortgage scam involving 13 defendants.
Mortgage broker Alex Chiswell, 33, was given four years in jail. He had helped an unemployed man and his wife to fraudulently obtain three mortgages.
His accomplice, former Bournemouth estate agent John Hudson, 52, received a 12-month prison sentence which was suspended for two years.
Hudson and Chiswell were found guilty of obtaining £204,000 from Halifax to buy a property in Poole, using fake pay slips and a false utility bill.
A second mortgage broker, Colin Zaczyk, 41, was jailed for two and a half years for dishonestly gaining a mortgage for a property in Eastleigh, Hampshire.
In total, five out of the 13 original defendants in the £3m mortgage fraud case were found guilty, four more admitted guilt, and the remaining four were cleared.
Two trials failed before a third was held at Bournemouth Crown Court involving nine defendants.
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