2014
£2-10 MILLION TAX FRAUD BY FORMER CORNWALL PRIDE TREASURER & SPONSOR
Apr 2014: The subsequent Criminal Court case against Lidbury’s former accountant (&Cornwall Pride treasurer/sponsor) case started at Truro Crown Court in 2014. It was estimated to last about ten weeks & one of the longest trials ever to be held at Truro Crown Court.
The original charges were for 1 million tax fraud by the accountant (who was also Cornwall Pride Treasurer/Sponsor), this became £2 million as further evidence was revealed.
The HMRC website of criminal Tax convictions now lists it as being between £2-10 million of tax fraud.
OBOE: HMRC
St Austell, England
Value
Between £2,000,000 and £10,000,000
A case of a tax agent operating a Self-Assessment fraud. He submitted fraudulent returns in respect of 1,000 clients' accounts, then diverted the tax refunds into his own account, in lieu of payments. The total amount of fraud was between £2 million and £10 million. He received total sentences of 89 years for 256 offences and will serve 7 years as the sentences are concurrent.
Western Morning News
...and still Cornwall Pride were in utter denial & still persecuted Lidbury for blowing the whistle
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Whereas those who collaborated & contributed in the online hate campaign 2011 against Lidbury (encouraged by police misfeasance) were welcome & frequently attended at BarQdos, a small backstreet gay bar in Truro (owned by Cornwall Pride committee member), Lidbury as a gay man was/is barred & not welcome at either BarQdos, Cornwall Pride, & had been excluded from Healthy Gay Cornwall, LGBTpact, FFLAG, Intercom Trust, Rainbow Source FM, OutAbout & GOC Cornwall.
NB: All those running these Cornwall LGBT orgs seemed absolutely determined by silence & exclusion/ostracization of Lidbury to aid & collaborate in the covering up of not only the massive tax fraud by the accountant/treasurer/sponsor of Cornwall Pride, but also the police homophobic abuses directed at Lidbury to cover up police instigated hate crimes & police covering up of Lidbury being a survivor victim of historic child rape.
Former employees of ST Pearce accountants have stated that Pearce & a former Chair of Pride were alleged to be business partners with a view to purchase a gay venue in the Westcountry.
When Lidbury as a former client of PEARCE the accountant, had raised his concerns with Devon & Cornwall police about Pearce & another person prior to the 2014 court case Devon & Cornwall police had not wanted to know.
NB. There was yet another’s criminal activity which Lidbury had on advice from HM tax fraud investigators reported for other criminal activity to the disinterested Devon & Cornwall police.
2014 a substantial file was given to HM Tax inspectors at Priorslee tax office. It was noted by the tax fraud investigator of ‘Clear evidence of tax fraud’. Associated stolen property, also ignored by Cornwall police was also returned to the lawful owner in front of witnesses in 2014.
Despite Lidbury having raised these various cases with police years previously, police did not want to know then… & don’t want to know now 2015.
