By Audrey King, Malvern Close, Mitcham

I cannot believe that anyone would suspect Gary, the caretaker at Stanford Primary school of such wrongdoing.

For two periods I was a Governor at Stanford and each time I served on the Finance Committee so I am familiar with financial arrangements in schools.

I always found Gary to be reliable, helpful and loyal. He has worked hard for the school over many years.

Schools should have in place the protocol for placing orders, as set out in ‘On the right track (2)’ or its successor which covers tendering, placing orders and invoices and the eventual issuing of cheques, once all documents have been checked thoroughly. Cheques should be signed by two members of staff.

Surely the authority and the police should be continuing their investigation to trace how the irregular payments occurred, for example, who opened the tenders, who authorised the orders, who signed the cheques etc.

Your newspaper states that Tony Nicholls of CCPM admitted to police he submitted faked invoices – what action has been taken?

School staff can always seek advice from the authority regarding financial matters.

I feel very sorry for the way Gary Savage has been treated and quite understand the stress this must have caused him and his family.

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