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Two Years Jail for Bradford Haulier
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A BRADFORD haulage contractor ri who had pleaded guilty to four charges of obtaining credit by fraud and one of obtaining credit when an undischarged bankrupt, and who asked for a total of 122 other offences to be taken into consideration, was sent to jail for a total of two years, at Leeds Quarter Sessions, last week. He was Kenneth Francis Smith, Silverhill Road, Bradford, Yorks.
Prosecuting, Mr. G. Gray said that more than £7,000 was involved in the offences. Smith had been adjudged bankrupt, at Bradford, in 1945, in an amount of £499. Early in 1959, he set up a transport clearing-house in East Street, Leeds, under the name of "K. Smith and Co." He had no vehicles of his own, but obtained contracts to move a considerable quantity of goods, usually sugar.
Smith was able to pat in a most competitive price and got a great deal of work, and this he was able to subcontract at a very attractive price. Mr. Geoffrey Veale, Q.C., Recorder: "You mean, that is what he did. He could not make money." To which Mr. Gray replied; "Not if he was going to pay his debts."
Mr. Gray said that in one instance Smith had charged £.2 8s. a ton for moving a large quantity of sugar from Bishop Auckland to Bristol, for which
he was prepared to pay the haulage contractors £3 15s. a ton. In the submission of the prosecution, in view of the fact that Smith was doing work apparently for a small rate and offering to pay a very large one, the whole thine must have been criminal in intent.
Commercial Life Poisoned It went on for long enough to poison the whole of commercial life, so far as road haulage was concerned, in the vicinity. The case had come to light largely as a result of a complaint by the Road Haulage Association, taken up by the two police officers in the case. After prolonged investigation, the case had been brought to court.
It was stated by police detective P. Howard that Smiths a married man with four children, had set up in business as a garage proprietor, in 1952. This had ceased to operate when he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, at Bradford Quarter Sessions, for offences involving false pretences.
Following his discharge from prison. Smith had worked as a driver for British Road Services for four years, until September, 1957. He then obtained a position as haulage manager with a local garage company. A year later he started the clearing-house business.
The Recorder said that he regarded it as a bad example of dishonest trading.