'Failed freight forwarder bosses on fraud charges
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• Two of the directors of Jon Parks Trailers, a Norfolk freight forwarder which went into liquidation owing nearing £150,000, were last week facing charges of conspiring to defraud hauliers.
Martin Matthews—who was a director of Harleston-based Jon Parks when Matthews used the name Donald Merrin—and Ian Parker, another Jon Parks director, have been charged with conspiring to defraud hauliers and freight forwarders by the non-payment of invoices.
The charges relate to the period between 1 April 1990 and 28 May 1993.
Matthews' wife, Susan, has also been charged. The three defendants are neighbours in Drewery Drive, Thorpe Marriott, Norwich.
The case will be heard at Norwich Crown Court.
When Merrin and Walker took Jon Parks into voluntary liquidation on 5 November 1993 they owed 60 unsecured creditors around £148,000.
The company had traded for less than a year.
The two men blamed the company's demise on the effects of the recession. At the time some haulier creditors expressed anger when Merrin subsequently became a director of JP Warehousing and Transport, which traded from the same address.