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Oxfam’s former head fraud buster was jailed yesterday for stealing £64,000 from the charity.

Edward McKenzie-Green, 34, was already facing an internal inquiry into his erratic behaviour when he landed in Haiti’s earthquake zone to investigate aid workers.

He continued stealing from Oxfam on his return to the UK from the Caribbean and resigned with a £29,000 pay out in November 2011.

At the time, half a million Haitians were still homeless and living in tents after the 2010 disaster. Investigators found he had filed 17 bogus invoices from two firms totalling £64,612. Some of the money was paid into accounts belonging to his father Edward Green, 62.

Jailing McKenzie-Green for two years and five months at the Old Bailey, judge Wendy Joseph told him: “You have taken, from those who desperately need it, substantial sums of money. This was a profound abuse of trust.”

In his defence, McKenzie-Green said he had been abusing anti-depressants and had received psychiatric treatment after a breakdown.

The father of one, of Chipping Norton, Oxon, admitted fraud by abuse of position.

His father, of Cumbernauld, Glasgow, was cleared of concealing criminal property.