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Bruce Quarton, the owner of Moorhouse Farm in Hovingham, York, has been fined £6,000 and was ordered to pay costs of £1,530 at York Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. Mr Quarton was prosecuted after a labourer was injured after falling from [...]  For the charge of major motoring fraud a Dewsbury man received a suspended jail sentence. Ibrar Hussain ran an internet company offering car spares but would never make deliveries. Hussain owner of Universal Autosalvage Ltd. was sentenced to one year imprisonment that was suspended for two. He also received 300 hours of community service and was [...] A conman targeted an elderly Torquay woman by trying to charge her over £8,000 to run plastic edging along her roof. The women lives in Marldon but has not been named and was the victim of William Birch of Bridgewater, a 35 year-old conman. Birch pleaded guilty to two offences at the Torquay Magistrates Court [...] Paul Cope fraudster, netted over £28 million in mortgage and leasing scams. He told a judge that he is broke with no money stashed and no hidden assets. The now disgraced Stafford financier is serving a term of 64 months and is facing the confiscation of everything he owns under the Proceeds Crime Act. At the [...] Langbar International’s ex chief executive of the £357 shell company, which collapsed six years ago causing huge losses for stockholders, has been sentenced to one year in jail and cannot be a company director for five years. His act was described as fraud of a grand scale by the The Serious Fraud Office. On Monday Stuart [...] Yesterday a Scot admitted to faking his death in a 520,000 pound scam of his insurance company. Anthony McErlean was thought have met his death in Honduras after being run over by a cabbage truck in 2009. The sixty-seven year old was said to have been killed by a fake witness who claimed his body [...] Two former T-Mobile employees have been fined £73,000 for theft and selling data after the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) concluded a successful case against them. Darren Hames and David Turley pleaded guilty under Section 55 of the Data Protection Act have to repay £28,700 and £45,000 respectively as well as court costs. A portion of the [...] The trial has opened regarding the cashier who allegedly fleeced the pensioners who she served at Gorse Hill Post Office. 29 year old Rajwinder Samra, from Colborne Street in Swindon, is accused of taking hundreds of pounds from eight customer’s bank accounts by persuading them to enter their PIN numbers a second time. Samra, who [...] The jury at the Old Bailey has heard about the part a senior surveyor who is married to a police officer is said to have played in a £10m mortgage scam, and received money and cars as her reward. Mary Jane Rathie is said to have deliberately overvalued 5 upmarket properties in London for a [...] A mother of three and former legal executive has been jailed for her participation in a £1.25m mortgage fraud that involved fake mortgage applications. Humaira Shah, 46, of Luton submitted different applications to a number of lenders that amounted to an attempt of almost £3m in fraud. She was part of a network of organized crime [...] |
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