Former director jailed for fraud
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• A former managing
6 6 director of
Express has Seabourne been jailed for three years by Southwark Crown Court for swindling the company.
Norman Marley submitted false invoices on behalf of three sub-contractors over a six-year period.
As a result Barking, Essexbased Seabourne lost more than £100,000.
Judge Marcus Anwyl-Davies QC told Marley: "You deceived the board of directors — you were a traitor in their midst. Such treachery is despicable."
The court heard that between 1982 and 1988 Marley was running a "firm within a firm" by hiring his own sub-contractors. They supplied him with invoices which they topped up with claims for bogus journeys and by increasing the cost of their labour.
Christopher Kynch, prosecuting, said that all the bogus invoices were channelled through Marley to the accounts department where the payments were made.
Marley, of Platford Green, Hornchurch, Essex was found guilty of conspiring to defraud Seabourne Express.
Sub-contractors Lee Hill of Stewart Avenue, Upminster, Essex; Clifford Dorman of Bournebridge Lane, Stapleford Abbots, Essex and James Duggan of Rainham Road, Rainham, Essex were found guilty of a similar offence.
Judge Anwyl-Davies jailed Hill and Dorman for two years.
He said that within weeks of starting work for Seabourne they were submitting false invoices to get money they were not entitled to. "You were prepared to deceive them into thinking they were getting value for money," he said.
Turning to Duggan, 63, the judge said that he took into account his good character and his age; he received two years imprisonment suspended for two years.