Charity conman Peter Lyon gets banned from running companies
By Andrew Penman on Jul 3, 08 10:55 AM in Charity
The charity conman we’ve branded repulsive has been banned from acting as a company director for 11 years.
Peter Lyon ran Barrington House Publishing Corp, which persuaded businesses into advertising on wallplanners by claiming that money raised would help children’s charities.
It raked in £3.5million but just £100,000 – less than three per cent – went to good causes.
Lyon, 45, who recently tried to sell his huge detached house in Halsall, Lancs, repeated the scam at Hamilton Forbes Ltd and Price Chamberlain Ltd.
All three were put into compulsory liquidation by the High Court.
Besides personally pocketing £600,000 the worm also acted as a director while a bankrupt.
The woman who sat on his right hand, 39-year-old Lorraine Wells, of Liverpool, has been banned from the boardroom for eight years.
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Erik Ribbskog said:
Mr Lyon is pictured there leaving the Halsall offices of CHESTNUT HOUSE PUBLISHING.
Chestnut House is a publishing company that publish Charity Wall Planners and sell advertising upon said planners. Just like Barrington House and Hamilton Forbes did.
Chestnut House is run by Lisa Colford (former employee of Mr Lyons at Barrington House and
Hamilton Forbes).
Several other former employees and ‘friends’ of My Lyon also work at CHESTNUT HOUSE
Mr Lyon lived/lives in Halsall
Im not making any assumption as I dont want to incur the wrath of ‘The Law’ (though as a lady once told me – ‘its not libel if its true’). But these coincidences are just piling up arent they?
Hello Mr P and Mr S – a fine job you are being. Feel free to visit Ormskirk a little town in the middle of ‘Knowhere’ and say hi 🙂
Her in Doors said:
Peter Lyon does look like he’s got the weight of the world on his shoulders, doesn’t he? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
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When I was working, at Bertelsmann Arvato Services Ltd’s Microsoft Scandinavian Product Activation, in 2005 and 2006, they spellt my name, Erik Ribbskog.
(There there were a lot of problems, with illigal managment methods, and organised harassment, and more, by the way).
When I searchen on Google now, I found this article, and that someone had been using my name, the way Arvato spellt it.
So I was just wondering what this is about, since I don’t really think anyone else living in Britain, or anywhere else, have the same name as me.
So I thought this was a bit strange maybe.
Yours sincerely,
Erik Ribsskog
PS.
Here is a link where it is explained more about the problems at Arvato:
https://johncons-blogg.net/search/label/Arvato-case
http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2008/07/charity-conman-peter-lyon-gets.html