Coleman, who was employed by Virgin Media O2, sold confidential data relating to customers to family friend Nicholas Harper for use in a boiler room fraud.

On Monday 1 September, Nicholas Harper, aged 26, also of Taunton, pleaded guilty to encouraging or assisting an offence to be committed in breach of the Data Protection Act.

Following a retrial at Southwark Crown Court, On 19 September 2025 a jury found Harper not guilty of conspiracy to defraud and not guilty of an offence related to carrying out regulated activity in the UK without FCA authorisation.

Harper was fined £100 and ordered to pay a £30 victim surcharge for the data protection breach. Harper was found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud which is an offence under the Criminal Law Act 1977 and the Fraud Act 2006.

Raymondip Bedi and Patrick Mavanga were subsequently sentenced to a combined 12 years of imprisonment for their role in a crypto scam which defrauded at least 65 investors out of £1,541,799.

Harper had earlier pleaded guilty to assisting an offence to be committed in breach of the Data Protection Act but was subsequently acquitted of conspiracy to defraud by a jury.

Coleman was suspended by his employer, pending the outcome of the criminal investigation.

A fine is the maximum penalty for this type of offence. Coleman was fined £384. He was ordered to pay a £38 surcharge and prosecution costs contribution of £500.

A further individual, Minas Filippidis, is wanted in relation to the same offences that Bedi and Mavanga were convicted for.