Grimsby Telegraph, 25th September 2007, reported that Bogus asbestos investigator Barrie Christy has been jailed after conning four companies out of at least £10,000 - and causing "massive losses" to one.
He forged certificates to pretend that asbestos analysis had been done, a court heard.
Christy (50), of Park View, Cleethorpes, was convicted by a jury of 16 offences of forgery and seven of obtaining a money transfer by deception, through bogus invoices, between September and November, 2004.Ian Goldsack, prosecuting at Grimsby Crown Court, said Christy had worked in health and safety and spotted a business opportunity for work involving checking premises for asbestos.
He used Craikhill Consultancy Limited, based in Immingham, to market his services. John Drew, of ABP, arranged for Christy to do sampling work at various sites. Because Christy was "not trained, qualified or accredited" for analysis, he was supposed to take samples to North Lincolnshire Analytical Limited for that company to provide certificates of analysis for him. Christy would then write the rest of the reports, submit them to the client companies and ask for payment through invoices. But Christy forged signatures to pretend North Lincolnshire Analytical Limited had analysed the samples.
The bogus invoices made Christy more than £10,000.
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