Company head ran firm while disqualified from being a director

A construction firm head barred from managing companies has been threatened with prison.

Donald Ernest Roberts, from Plymouth, was banned from being a company director for four years in 2007 but managed another firm during this time.

He had been disqualified from being a company director for four years in 2007 after R.D. Surfacing went into liquidation with debts of over 拢123,000. He was disqualified again for 11 years after another firm, Roads and Drives Resurfacing Limited (RDRL), went into compulsory liquidation owing around 拢90,000 in 2009.  The court found that he, and not his daughter, was the real director of RDRL, in breach of his ban.

He was handed a six month suspended prison sentence and ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work in September 2010.

Last week the court said he must pay 拢30,000 within six months or go to prison for 15 months. He was also ordered to pay costs of 拢2,757.

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