A CHARLATAN who cheated his way into the top job at a Taunton charity has been ordered to repay almost £100,000 of his ill-gotten gains.

Jon Andrewes, a builder, falsified his CV to land the £75,000-a-year chief executive's job at St Margaret's Hospice, a crime that eventually led to him being jailed.

Andrewes lied about his qualifications to secure the post at the organisation's headquarters in Bishop's Hull.

He then went on to later submit further false CVs to con his way into top roles with two NHS trusts in Devon and Cornwall.

Among the outrageous made up claims he made were that he had a joint first class degree and a doctorate.

But it emerged that the only qualifications he had were a higher education certificate in social work from the 1970s and a PGCE in teaching.

There are even different spellings of his name on personal documents - he is variously Jon or John and Andrewes or Andrews.

A Proceeds of Crime order in 2018 saw his available assets of almost £100,000 confiscated, including a boat, a decision reversed by the Court of Appeal two years later after it ruled Andrewes, now 69, gave "full value" for the money he received. The court also decided that he should not be punished twice for the same crime.

But the Supreme Court has this month now said the bogus charity and NHS boss, who was sent down for two years in 2017 after admitting his con which earned him £643,602.91, must after all repay £96,737.24.

The Supreme Court unanimously agreed that Andrewes should repay the money following an appeal submitted by the Crown.

Andrewes was originally caught out when an investigation revealed glaring discrepancies between the CV he sent to St Margaret's and two others he wrote on his way to becoming chairman of Torbay NHS Care Trust and Royal Cornwall.

After his prison sentence, Andrewes reportedly lived in Stoke Gabriel, Devon, with his wife, Penny, with whom he ran a curtains and blinds company.

He is no longer a director of the company and his wife has changed her surname.