‘I started brewery as coke dealing lifeline’

A former public schoolboy built up one of London’s most successful microbreweries as a ‘lifeline’ after he was released from jail for cocaine dealing, a court heard. Julian De Vere Whiteway-Wilkinson, 45, created the London Fields Brewery in Hackney in 2011 and registered it in the name of 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’…