Carlisle salesman defrauded plumbers’ merchant out of £34,000 Carlisle Crown Court A trusted plumbers’ merchant salesman who defrauded his firm of around £34,000 while in the grip of a gambling problem has been jailed. Anthony Joseph Crangle, 25, was given a car and phone after starting with the Kingstown branch of Crossling Ltd in January 2018. But during a period of around two months to six weeks, Crangle created 42 bogus invoices using customers’ accounts to place orders for products — mainly either Worcester or Baxi boilers — which he took away from the branch. Crangle was tackled after customers contacted the company to query invoices for goods they had neither ordered nor received.