that there was an “extraordinary” lack of documentation and no log-in details provided to access the charity’s financial information.

When the DPOA launched an internal probe they had to employ forensic investigators to gain access to mobile phones and computers as Ms Hampton claimed she had forgotten their passwords.

The solicitor also outlined at the tribunal how Ms Hampton had lied in March last year when she claimed to the Charity Commission that she had no conflict of interest by working for the DPOA.

However, she had in fact been in a relationship with Robert Crawford between 2007 and 2010, but he was not then a board member.

The solicitor also raised the matter of Mr Crawford’s signature being forged on an application for money from the Northern Ireland Police Fund toThe couple first met in 200 8 . He proposed later that year but while looking at wedding venues on a Greek island the following year, the man, Mike Parke , began feeling unwell.

Ali Parke said : 'He'd been feeling unwell for a while before we went to look at the venues. He'd kept getting terrible headaches, and had shaky hands and tunnel vision. He'd been for an MRI scan just before we'd gone on holiday and when we got back, the hospital called him back in for the results

Doctors broke the news to the devastated couple that Mike had a stage four malignant melanoma that had spread to his brain and chest. They were told there was nothing that could be done for him, as the tumours