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Sentences for 11 cement swindlers
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• An illegal and profitable business within a business was run at a Bolton concrete firm by eight self-employed drivers and three employees of the firm, it was stated at Manchester Crown Court last week. The drivers set out from the firm, Pioneer Concrete (UK), of Crook Street, Bolton, Lancashire, with loads of cement for delivery but these loads had not been documented through normal channels and the profits from the sales were shared among the 11 men, said Mr Kenneth Taylor, prosecuting.
The plant manager, Harold Howarth, was alleged to have received sometimes £30 a week from such transactions. Mr Taylor claimed similar swindles might have been going on for as long as six years and the only means of detection was through a deficiency in stock. It was difficult to estimate the total amount gained by the men, he said. All 11 admitted conspiracy to defraud. They were: Harold Howarth, of Morris Green Lane; Thomas Smith, of Lever Edge Lane; Trevor Bradley, of Hurst Street; Keith Salmon, of Bayswater Street; Gerard Walsh, of Collyhurst Avenue; John Morton, of Crossmore Drive, all of Bolton: and Kenneth Beasley, of Leigh Road, Westhoughton; Leslie Master, of Brown Street, Chorley; Harry Sileock, of Lind Street, Atherton; Derek Greenhall, of Mossfield Road, Kearsley; and Thomas Jones, of Leigh Road, Westhoughton.
All except the three employees, Howarth, Smith and Jones, admitted stealing concrete between early 1971 and early this year. They were all given 12-month sentences suspended for two years on each charge to run concurrently. Howarth was jailed for 18 months, Smith for 12 months and Jones received a nine months suspended sentence and was fined 1.500. Judge 1.M. Prestt said: "This was a wicked and deliberate conspiracy. It is no excuse that this sort of practice is rife throughout the trade. It is an illegal business within a business".