Four Men Jailed for Tyre Frauds
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T"trial in which eight men were charged with conspiring to defraud the Tyre Manufacturers Conference, Ltd., by making false claims for concessions in respect of tyres which they alleged to be defective, concluded at Bristol Assizes last week. Seven of the accused were found guilty and the eighth acquitted.
The defendents were Morton: Charles Cullimore, 60, a director of several companies, of AmberWood, London Road, Stroud; George Malcolin Campbell Robertson, 46, of BIakeney Road, Horfield, Bristol; Clifford John Guy. 31. of Blagrove Close, Hartcliffe, Bristol: Raymond Ronald Holcombe, 26, of Hersey Gardens, Withywood, Bristol; John Grant, 30, of Costiland Drive. Hartcliffe, Bristol; William Henry Creed. 67, company director, of Charlton Avenue, Fitton. Bristol; John Huggins. 42, of St. Lucia Crescent, Horfic1(1. Bristol; and Ian Keith Marshall, 27. of Hengrove Lane, Knowle, Bristol.
Creed and Cullimore were described as ,directors of Luxton's Tyre Services, Ltd.. Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol, and Guy was said to be the company's manager.
Huggins and Marshall were said to trade as Tyre Services (Bristol), and Robertson on his own account as a tyre .dealer. Grant and Holcombe worked for him.
In addition to the charge of conspiring to defraud the Tyre Manufacturers Conference, Robertson and Grant were accused Of forgery. GO was charged With Creed and Cullimore with uttering forged documents.
Marshall, Robertson, Guy, Creed. Huggins and Cullimore were also charged with obtaining credit notes by false pretences.
Guy, Huggins and Marshall were sent to ,prison for 18 months and Robertson for a year. Grant and Holcombe were bound over for two years.
Morton Charles Cullimore was cleared of all charges.
William Henry Creed, described 'as managing director of Luxton's, who was taken ill two days before the case ended and granted " indefinite bail," was fined a total of t100—£25 on each of four Counts.
Passing sentence, Mr. Justice Stable said: "1 wish people would realize the utter ruin and disaster that must ultimately overtake the dishonest trader. I cannot possibly regard this substantial plan and protracted swindle as anything but a serious matter."
To Grant and Holcombe he said they were " just a couple of Stooges " carrying out instructions, but they knew of the frauds.
He told Guy that in some respects his situation was the most tragic of all. But. said his lordship, he could mit shut his eyes to the fact that to some extent Guy was the brains behind these fraudulent schemes,
Huggins and Marshall, said the Judge. were also engaged "in this disreputable swindle" in an equal way.
The trial had lasted 14 working days and 11 leading counsel, including five Q,C.s, were engaged.