Ban for former Paralympian whose charity paid £1m to family companies

Regulator also used courts to recover funds after only 300,000 of 6m raised was spent on charitable purposes

A former medal-winning Paralympian footballer has been banned from being a trustee by the charities watchdog after an investigation found a disability sports charity he founded paid 1m raised by the public to companies run by him and his wife.

The Charity Commission said Matt Dimbylow, 51, who represented the GB seven-a-side football team in the 2008 and 2012 Paralympics, and was a Paralympic World Cup medal-winner, was guilty of serious misconduct and abusing public trust.