Ex-headteacher denies using school funds for cricket tickets and parking fines
Former Culford School head denies charges related to misuse of school funds
Last updated 9th Apr 2026
The former headteacher at one of Britain’s leading private schools has pleaded not guilty to misusing funds to buy cricket tickets and pay off parking fines.
Julian Johnson-Munday, 63, has been charged with fraud over claims of abusing the role of head at Culford School in Suffolk.
At Norwich Crown Court on Thursday, Johnson-Munday entered pleas to an amended charge sheet, denying two counts of fraud by abuse of position and two counts of fraud by false representation.
The charges allege he used a school credit card to buy £1,860 worth of cricket tickets and pay off £80 in parking fines between November 18 2021 and August 21 2022.
His trial was set for February 21, 2028.
Johnson-Munday worked for the private school, in Bury St Edmunds – which charges fees of up to £30,780 per year for day pupils and up to £48,795 for full boarders – for 19 years prior to his suspension in January 2023.
International students who board face costs of up to £52,515 for the year.
The school is set in 480 acres of Suffolk parkland and counts MPs, finance bosses, a former Rolls-Royce chairman, and football commentator John Motson among its alumni, while the Prince and Princess of Wales were rumoured to have considered sending Prince George there.