A COMPANY DIRECTOR, WHO RAN UP HOTEL BILLS, AND HI

A COMPANY DIRECTOR, WHO RAN UP HOTEL BILLS, AND HIRED A
CHAUFFEUR DRIVEN ROLLS ROYCE, WORTH NEARLY #7,000, WAS JAILED
FOR 15 MONTHS AT SOUTHWARK CROWN COURT ON FRIDAY.

JAILING WILLIAM RYAN, MR RECORDER FRANCIS IRWIN, QC TOLD
HIM: ‘YOU KNOW DOUBT ACCEPT THAT OFFENCES OF THIS KIND CANNOT
BE PASSED OFF BY THE COURTS.

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THE EXTRAVAGANT EXECUTIVE BOOKED INTO TWO HOTELS IN
LONDON AND BRISTOL BUT AVOIDED SETTLING THE BILL, CLAIMING HE
WAS INVOLVED IN A MULTI-MILLION POUND DEAL, THE COURT HEARD.

RYAN CHECKED INTO THE MAYFAIR HOTEL, LONDON, THEN
ARRANGED FOR THE HOTEL TO PROVIDE HIM WITH A CHAUFFEUR DRIVEN
ROLLS ROYCE TO TAKE HIM TO BRISTOL.

HE BOOKED INTO THE GRAND HOTEL, BRISTOL, BUT WAS TOLD
THE FOLLOWING DAY THAT CREDIT FACILITIES COULD NOT BE EXTENDED.

‘BUT RYAN TOLD THE MANAGER HE WAS A MILLIONAIRE,’ SAID
MR SIMON WILKINSON, PROSECUTING.

THE COURT WAS TOLD RYAN AND CO-DIRECTOR ALBERT JARRETT
WERE INVOLVED IN A PROJECT TO DESIGN A MACHINE WHICH WOULD
DETECT MASTITIS IN COWS.

BOTH TOLD THE JURY THEY INTENDED TO PAY BACK THE MONEY
AND HAD NEEDED TO BOOK INTO THE HOTELS TO ENTERTAIN CLIENTS
WHILE RESEARCHING FOR THE PROJECT, FOR WHICH THEIR COMPANY
CEMORANGLES HAD BEEN FORMED.

RYAN, 46, OF CRISP HOUSE, DOVEHOUSE, BARKING ESSEX,
DENIED OBTAINING SERVICES BY DECEPTION FROM THE TWO HOTELS
BETWEEN JUNE 4 AND 15 LAST YEAR, AND OBTAINING A ROLLS ROYCE.

JARRETT, 24, OF PULROS ROAD, STOCKWELL, ALSO DENIED THE
OFFENCES AND A CHARGE OF EVASION OF A HOTEL BILL WORTH #2,000,
AND WAS AQUITTED.

ENDS*