Nine face court on mortgage fraud charges - News in depth - Mortgage Introducer UK

Nine face court on mortgage fraud charges - News in depth - Mortgage Introducer UK
2 June, 2011
The group, including the landlady of a Middlesbrough pub, lied about their earnings and jobs in their mortgage applications. In total “a six-figure sum” was dishonestly transferred. However, the court was told that there are no arrears on the mortgages.

James Hewison, 32, of Ingleby Road, Great Broughton, was jailed for 12 months at Teesside Crown Court for his part in the scams. He acted as the “introducer” helping the others acquire mortgages. The court was told that most of the group met Hewison at the Park End Hotel Pub, in Middlesbrough.

Judge Peter Armstrong described one defendant, Anothy Mett, 33, as being “unfortunate” for happening to come across Hewison in the pub which led to him “becoming embroiled in all this”.

The court heard that pub landlady, Catherine Beadnall, 54, of Penistone Road, Middlesbrough, had repeatedly lied in her mortgage applications. She claimed she earned £21,000 a year when in fact her earnings for that year were just £900. She was given a six-month prison sentence suspended for two years.

Her ex-husband John Francis Howard, 55, of Tavistock Road, Middlesbrough, and their two sons, Christopher Howard, 28, and John Ronald Howard, 31, who both live at the Park End pub, also faced charges.