A ‘cowboy builder’ has been banned from acting as a company director for 14 years after he acted as a company director while already banned and bankrupt.
Eoin Frederick Murray acted as a director of South Devon Construction SW Ltd (“SW”), despite having been disqualified from acting as a director for 7 years. His colleague, David John Constable, the de jure director of SW, has also been disqualified as a director for 7 years, for allowing Mr Murray to act as a director despite knowing that Mr Murray was disqualified.
Paul Titherington, Official Receiver in the Public Interest Unit, said: “Mr Murray has been subject to two previous disqualification orders and had shown a blatant disregard for the insolvency proceedings. This further disqualification means that he will be unable to act as a director for an extended period of time and giving significant protection to the trading community and the public purse” .
The investigations the Insolvency Service also wound up four other connected companies of which Mr Murray was a director – South Devon Construction Ltd, South Devon Services Ltd, South Devon Construction Exeter Ltd and Nationwide Shopfitters Ltd.
Murray featured in the Channel Five series Cowboy Builders in 2009 and was later convicted of fraud in 2013.
