Beer tycoon ‘conned the taxman’

  A former public schoolboy behind one of London’s most successful microbreweries conned the taxman out of more than £700,000, a court heard. Julian De Vere Whiteway-Wilkinson, 45, created the London Fields Brewery in Hackney in 2011, and ran it with his wife, 40-year-old Rosemary Spence. The business proved a hit as the craze for craft beer took off, and it’s products – with names like ‘Make Love Not War’ or ‘Shoreditch Triangle’ – were sold all over London. Celebrities…