A headmaster of a top independent school is accused of using its funds for cricket tickets and luxury accommodation.
Julian Johnson-Munday appeared in the Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday after he was charged with one count of fraud by false representation.
The 63-year-old was suspended from Culford School in January 2023 when a probe into his conduct was launched.
He worked at the Suffolk private school, which charges £ 36,000 a year, for almost two decades.
Johnson-Munday is accused of using the school’s credit card to splash out on Lord’s tickets and using the school’s digger for his ‘personal use’, according to the charge.
The Daily Mail understands Johnson-Munday was living on-site at Culford School, within its 480 acres of grounds.
The charge, contrary to the Fraud Act 2006, alleges that on 18 July 2023 at Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk he ‘dishonestly made a false representation, namely that you made several payments for personal expenses on the school credit card, for Lords Tickets, accommodation at the East India Company, used school property without permission namely a digger for his own use in the amount of £2724.5 intending to make a gain for yourself’.
No plea was entered, and his hearing was adjourned to January 27.
Julian Johnson-Munday appeared in the Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday after he was charged with one count of fraud by false representation
Julian Johnson-Munday worked at Culford School in Suffolk for 19 years, which charges students £36,000 a year
The mixed-gender school, which takes pupils up to 18, was founded in 1881 and moved to Culford Park, near Bury St Edmunds, in 1935.
The 18th-century mansion was named one of Britain’s six most architecturally beautiful schools by Tatler magazine in 2019.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, who have a home in Norfolk, are understood to have considered sending Prince George there.
The school’s alumni include MPs, finance chiefs, a former Rolls-Royce chairman, and sports presenter John Motson.
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Headmaster at £36,000-a-year private school ‘misused work credit cards for Lords tickets and luxury accommodation’