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[00:-1.00]1  Tomintoul, Scotland--On Saturday night at The Grouse\'s Nest,
[00:-2.00]they\'re still willing to raise a glass or two to "Lord Williams",
[00:-3.00]though now his title prompts laughter.
[00:-4.00]And now they just call him "Tony".
[00:-5.00]2  There are those in this beautiful village
[00:-6.00]in the mountains of Scotland
[00:-7.00] (population, 320) who say they were never quite sure about Anthony Williams,
[00:-8.00]the soft-spoken,
[00:-9.00]wealthy noble who arrived in 1986 with his well-dressed wife.
[00:10.00]3  And there are other who say their suspicions were aroused over time,
[00:11.00]as the 55-year-old Mr.Williams,
[00:12.00]who appeared on weekends turned out in fine suits,
[00:13.00]bought up property after property,
[00:14.00]providing such a large injection of cash into the village
[00:15.00]that he single-handedly brought me community back to life.
[00:16.00]4  But no one could have possibly guessed the truth
[00:17.00]--that the man with endless money and a friendly manner was not a lord at all
[00:18.00]but a government employee living out a fantasy
[00:19.00]that he was a Scottish noble
[00:20.00]and paying for it by stealing funds from Scotland Yard.
[00:21.00]5  About two weeks ago, a regreful Mr.Williams,
[00:22.00]who had worked for the London police since 1959
[00:23.00]and had risen to a 65,000 a year position as deputy director of finance,
[00:24.00]was brought into court and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.
[00:25.00]6  Estimates are that he poured nearly 5 million of the stolen money
[00:26.00]into the village and gave jobs to 43 people.
[00:27.00]And now that he has fallen upon dark days
[00:28.00]at least some villagers are sticking by him.
[00:29.00]7  "I found him a very charming man,
[00:30.00]very friendly, considerate --not at all proud,"
[00:31.00] said Georgie McAllister, 70, the manager of the local museum
[00:32.00]whose family has been farming the surrounding hills for generations.
[00:33.00] "It\'s hard to understand how a clever person like him
[00:34.00]could mislead people like that.
[00:35.00]It\'s sad. Of course, it did benefit the village.
[00:36.00]A lot of the properties were beautifully restored."
[00:37.00]8  A few doors down the square,
[00:38.00]barber Donald Corr sat inside his shop
[00:39.00]and described how suspicions began to grow.
[00:40.00]"Everyone wondered where the money was coming from.
[00:41.00]Why was he spending it in a little place in the mountains?
[00:42.00]Christ, he wouldn\'t have gotten it back in 100 years."
[00:43.00]9  According to the court,
[00:44.00]Mr.Williams stole more than 8 million over eight years.
[00:45.00]Most of it came from a secret fund that had been placed under his sole authority
[00:46.00]and that was supposed to be used to pay spies
[00:47.00]and conduct secret activities against the Irish Republican Army.
[00:48.00]10  Instead, it went to create one more British lord.
[00:49.00]11  Mr.Williams bought an estate with a fine brick house in England.
[00:50.00]He bought a beautiful home with white walls and a pool in Spain.
[00:51.00]He bought noble titles at auctions,
[00:52.00]spending 95,000 to become the Lord of Chirnside,
[00:53.00]and then adding on 10 more Scottish titles.
[00:54.00]12  But most of all,
[00:55.00]he sunk his dishonest gains into this village
[00:56.00]that captured his heart with its fine stone cottages,
[00:57.00]its central area of green grass,
[00:58.00]green rows of hedges,
[00:59.00]and its fantastic view of rolling fields
[-1:00.00]and pine forests disappearing into the distance
[-1:-1.00]like the men of an ancient army marching over the horizon.
[-1:-2.00]13  He bought multiple cottages and fixed them up.
[-1:-3.00]He purchased the pub
[-1:-4.00]and made it into a fine place to have a glass of Glenlivet Scotch whiskey,
[-1:-5.00]produced only 10 miles (16 kilometers) to the north.
[-1:-6.00]And most of all,

[-1:-7.00]he bought the run-down Gordon Arms Hotel and totally restored it,
[-1:-8.00]transforming it from a mess
[-1:-9.00]into a glorious first-class hotelwith 30 handsomely furnished rooms,
[-1:10.00]wood-paneled stairs,
[-1:11.00]false bookshlves with fake leather books and an outstanding restaurant.
[-1:12.00]14  "I would offer him three choices of glasses for the restaurant:
[-1:13.00]an average one, a poor one,
[-1:14.00]and fine crystal. Always, he chose the crystal.
[-1:15.00]Nothing but the best," said David Abdy,
[-1:16.00]who was chosen by Mr.Williams to manage the construction work
[-1:17.00]and run the businesses.
[-1:18.00]15  Mr.Williams deceived everyone,
[-1:19.00]including Mr.Abdy and including even his own wife,
[-1:20.00]telling them he inherited the money from a rich uncle.
[-1:21.00]He was caught because his bank deposits were so large
[-1:22.00]that they were noticed by the bank\'s management.
[-1:23.00]The bank notified the police,
[-1:24.00]who discovered,to their terrible embarrassment,
[-1:25.00]that the criminal was one of their own.
[-1:26.00]16  The London police commissioner
[-1:27.00]publicly apologized for poorly supervising his department.
[-1:28.00]Under a hastily made arrangement.
[-1:29.00]the police will sell the properties,
[-1:30.00]but at a substantial financial loss.
[-1:31.00]Mr.Abdy, a 27-year-old businessman,
[-1:32.00]acquired the bulk of the properties for about half a million pounds,
[-1:33.00]obtaining bank loans and striking deals with various people
[-1:34.00]to pay only a part of what they are owed by Mr.Williams.
[-1:35.00]17  In the only interview he has given since his arrest a year ago,
[-1:36.00]Mr.Williams discussed his motives
[-1:37.00]for the crime with a London newspaper:
[-1:38.00]"I discovered this bloody huge amount of money.
[-1:39.00]I went from the need to pay off a few debts
[-1:40.00]to what can only be described as greed.
[-1:41.00]There is no way justify it."

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