Leaders of Notts mining union charged with theft of nearly £150,000 from charity

Former UDM president Neil Greatrex, left, and general secretary Mick Stevens

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TWO Notts-based union leaders have been charged with the theft of nearly £150,000 from a charity for sick and elderly miners.


Neil Greatrex and Mick Stevens are accused of taking money from the Nottinghamshire Miners Home charity between June 5, 2000, and May 2006

Greatrex, 59, from Stanley, near Teversal, and Stevens, also 59, of Rufford Park, Newark, both pleaded not guilty to four charges of theft, totalling £148,628.83, at a hearing held at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Monday, March 28.

Greatrex, former president of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers, and Stevens, general secretary of the Notts UDM, are both trustees of the charity.

The charity’s primary purpose was to run a convalescent home at Chapel St Leonards, near Skegness, Lincolnshire.

A South Yorkshire Police spokeswoman said both men have been released on bail to appear at Nottingham Crown Court on Monday, May 16.