YouTube Star Gaskings Has Been Sentenced To 5 Years Of Jail After Million-Dollar Scam

After six weeks of trial, famous British YouTuber Anthony Locke, better known as Gaskings, has been sentenced to five years of jail for scamming £999,266 from pensioners.

According to Southwark Crown Court, Locke (32) and his partner Ray King (54) scammed 16 pensioners of almost £1,000,000. He is charged for 23 counts of fraud by false representation and three counts of money laundering. Ray King, who apparently only had an assisting role, was charged for 14 counts of fraud by false representation and given a 3 year prison sentence.

Gasking’s money laundering scheme consisted of pensioners signing up to a website, created by Locke, and investing their pension funds. It was claimed that in return they would get back at least half of their contribution, and the other half would be invested into various eco-friendly firms, which later turned out to also have been faked.

"Locke was the architect of a callous and sophisticated fraud with King as his employee. Between September 2013 and April 2014 Locke obtained almost £1 million from various pension companies, which represented the ‘pension pots’ of the victims in this case." said Investigating Officer Paul Sullivan.

Locke spent the nearly 1 million pounds on expensive supercars (two Audis, a Mercedes, an Aston Martin Vantage, a Porsche 911 and a Lamborghini Gallardo), extravagant holidays and gambling.

At the time of writing, the Gaskings YouTube channel boasts an impressive 687,218 subscribers - which is especially surprising considering how much of a “bad reputation” this channel has amongst car guys. His most viewed video has unbelievable 7,734,263 clicks, and the channel has 190,733,158 clicks in total. Locke also has a secondary channel called Gaskingsvlogs, with an additional 4,559 subscribers and 55,451 total views. His latest - and probably last - upload on his main channel was on March 9th 2018, which fits in with the time frame of the court trial.

What do you think of Gasking’s imprisonment? Comment down below - but please do me a favor and try to stay somewhat objective!
Tobi aka The Stig’s German Cousin

Sources: Dorset Police, Daily Echo, AR12gaming.com

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Comments

JenstheGTIfreak (pizza)

All I can say is…LOL

05/01/2018 - 09:40 |
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lots of love? Xddd

05/01/2018 - 09:49 |
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abratador_

Damn he got gassed alright

05/01/2018 - 09:48 |
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Archive Aston (Aston Martin squad)

Everyone on CT right now

05/01/2018 - 09:50 |
107 | 0

Haha, true…

05/01/2018 - 10:00 |
7 | 0

YO

+1 FOR THE TITANFALL REFERENCE

05/01/2018 - 14:58 |
20 | 0

He was funny tho…

06/13/2018 - 04:50 |
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Rise Comics

Good riddance

05/01/2018 - 10:16 |
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Fastlane Blocker

serves him right calling a fluid gas… ohh he did something else… never mind

05/01/2018 - 10:17 |
9 | 0

Haha xD

05/01/2018 - 10:28 |
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Freddie Skeates

Holy sht he really is a assh*le

05/01/2018 - 10:18 |
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Anonymous

Served him right

05/01/2018 - 10:50 |
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Richard the edition 100

cause of him i called stance rice

05/01/2018 - 11:00 |
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Jonathan Claus Hendra 2.0 (still the best racer in West Coas

He really deserved it. He once shows a disrespect towards car culture in my home country (Indonesia) from taunting the ‘rice’ culture, using an Indonesian Nissan GT-R RocketBunny showcase video on his channel without crediting it and at last, he also once use my content (from old account) without permission and even not giving credits about it.

05/01/2018 - 11:06 |
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BV86_OFISHAL (AUDM Fanboy)

Pull out your sacks, sit back (for five years) and enjoy!

05/01/2018 - 11:13 |
40 | 0

Hahaha ;)

05/01/2018 - 11:14 |
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