abstract:Ian Cheshire, born London 12 April 1936 is a Scottish petroleum engineer who developed the Eclipse reservoir simulator. He has most recently worked for Schlumberger where he was a Schlumberger Fellow from 1999 to 2003.
Tariq Hassan, from Essex, and Osama Al Baghdady, from Manchester, both received four-year jail sentences, while a fifth defendant, Ian Sherwood, from Cheshire, was jailed for three-and-a-half years for allowing his offices to be used for the fraud.
"Persistent low-level rudeness and disruption seems to have become a fact of life in education today and no longer raises eyebrows or seems to merit special attention, " said Dr Ian Lancaster, a secondary school teacher from Cheshire.