Graham Kent obituary

My friend Graham Kent, who has died from motor neurone disease aged 71, was a senior civil servant specialising in the legal aspects of serious fraud.He joined what is now the Department for Work and Pensions in 1987 as a legal adviser, and spent the rest of his career there, partly as a prosecutor of serious fraud but also advising on the drafting of regulations on discrimination and freedom of information. He was also active in the First Division Association, the trade union for senior civil s