The jury in the the trial of a headteacher accused of defrauding a Middlesbrough primary school where he worked has gone out to consider it's verdict. Darren Gamble is accusing of ordering £12,775.84 worth of computers, cameras and IT equipment from Acklam Whin Primary School's budget, between February 2018 and January 2022.

It is the prosecution's case that many of these items were never seen in the school and they were not for the school's use. The former head says every item he bought was for the school and that he introduced new communication methods where staff could video call classrooms.

He took iPads and other equipment home during the summer holidays of 2021, he said, in order to set them up for school use in September. The trial heard that when the school realised seven new iPa

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