Two former CWS executives each received prison sentences of three and a half years after being convicted of corruption relating to a supply deal in 1995. Allan Green, former chief general manager of CWS, and ex-chief buyer David Chambers were found guilty of corruptly accepting £1m each as an inducement to show favour to Hobson plc, a company that was seeking to secure an extension to a food supply contract with CWS. In mitigation, lawyers for the two men asked the court to bear in mind that this had been a single incident of corruption, not a sustained pattern of behaviour. But Judge David Radford told the two men: "The very size of the sums you received are an aggravating feature of this case." He said that during the trial they had both "brazenly lied and lied again about what had happened", and that neither man had shown any remorse. The judge ordered both men to pay £50,000 towards Serious Fraud Office costs. Paul Thomas, who at the time of the offences was a solicitor with Alsop Wilkinson, was cleared of aiding and abetting Green and Chambers. The jury was discharged from reaching a verdict on Andrew Regan, former director and chief executive of Hobson plc, who is charged with theft of £2.4m from FE Barber, a subsidiary of Hobson. He will be retried next January. {{NEWS }}