Audit Office will recover after ex-head's jailing, says AM

BBC News - Audit Office will recover after ex-head's jailing, says AM: "credibility of the Wales Audit Office will not suffer long-term as a result of the jailing of its ex-auditor general, says a senior assembly member.
Jeremy Colman is beginning an eight month jail term for possessing more than 170 indecent images of children.
Chair of the assembly's public accounts committee, Jonathan Morgan, said a 'golden future' lay ahead for the office Colman formerly led.
Colman, 62, admitted 15 separate offences.
Mr Morgan admitted to BBC Wales that he had been 'gobsmacked' when the allegations against Mr Colman surfaced.
He said: 'That's the only way I can describe it because I would never have thought that he would have committed those offences.
'But I don't think the (audit office's) credibility has been damaged because these are the acts of one man.'

Jonathan Morgan AM said he was 'gobsmacked' to learn of the charges against Colman The auditor general for Wales heads the Wales Audit Office, which is independent of government and is responsible for the annual audit of some £20bn of public expenditure.
Reports it prepares on the Welsh Assembly Government's accounts are scrutinised by the public accounts committee."