PCL director disqualified for 4 years

A Sheffield man has been disqualified from being a company director for four years over his previous conduct at a building services contractor.

Robert Tyler was a director of PCL Building Services Limited before it went into voluntary liquidation in April 1997 with debts of more than £106,000.

Reading County Court has now found him guilty of causing the company to carry on a business similar to that of PCL Services, a previously failed company, without sufficient capital; to continue to trade at the risk of creditors; to retain money owed to the Government; to fail to comply with its statutory obligations to the Government and to repay a substantial amount of his director's loan at a time when he ought to have known that the company was unable to pay its debts.