Hull Crown Court heard the gang ransacked the jackpots of slot machines while holing themselves up in hotels. Philip Chapman, 26, of Staverton Road, Whitley Wood, and Roger Langford, 24, of Hexham Road, Whitley, got caught up in a gang spread across the country that police believe raked in £450,000 and savaged the profits of the UK gambling industry to the tune of £900,000. TWO Reading men have been jailed after a nationwide scam that involved manufacturing 90,000 fake pound coins that were used in thousands of slot machines in pubs, clubs and restaurants stretching from Devon to Scotland.