Coke smuggling toff and London Fields Brewery owner gets lenient treatment from judge. Well I never

[editor]

Isn't this nice?

'Mr Big' gets more time to repay cocaine profits ... so he can make money from his new brewery

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/m...-make-money-from-his-new-brewery-9850637.html convicted cocaine smuggler who gave videos of drug-fuelled sex romps to his friends has been allowed longer to repay a £3.2 million debt to the taxpayer — so he can make more money running a London brewery.

Former public schoolboy Jules de Vere Whiteway-Wilkinson was jailed for 12 years in 2004, after a court heard how he supplied drugs to clients including celebrities, City traders and music industry figures.

He was later ordered to hand back his £2.1 million criminal profit. He still owes nearly 90 per cent of the sum, plus another £1.2 million in interest, with much of the money held in “hidden assets” that have remained out of reach of prosecutors for years.

But a judge has now allowed him to defer repayment until well into next year at the earliest.

It followed a plea by his barrister Gavin Irwin, who told Westminster magistrates that the new London Fields Brewery in Hackney was “heading” towards success and likely to be earning millions of pounds within two years. Mr Irwin said that would allow his client to clear his debt to the taxpayer.

Forcing Whiteway-Wilkinson, 42, to give more than the £500 a month he currently hands back would slow repayment, and prevent him from buying a new fermenter that would “raise a great deal more” money for his brewery, said Mr Irwin. “The business is still in its infancy and every pound that is taken now makes it less likely to succeed,” he added. “What we are asking is that the court doesn’t take any more money for a year or 18 months.”http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/m...-make-money-from-his-new-brewery-9850637.html

 

[Fez909]

Seems fair enough to me: take the money now and don't get it all, or take the full amount in a year or two? Full money, please.

 

[editor]

Seems fair enough to me: take the money now and don't get it all, or take the full amount in a year or two? Full money, please.

He claims to be only able to pay back £500 a month. Ya Rly.

 

[Fez909]

He claims to be only able to pay back £500 a month. Ya Rly.

Well, it may or may not be true. He's served 12 years in jail for something which shouldn't even be illegal and he's still got to pay back the money. I think deferring for a year is not overly lenient.

 

[editor]

Well, it may or may not be true. He's served 12 years in jail for something which shouldn't even be illegal and he's still got to pay back the money. I think deferring for a year is not overly lenient.

Um..."Former public schoolboy Jules de Vere Whiteway-Wilkinson was jailed for 12 years in 2004".

And...

Police found a bag containing £200,000, and another holding 15kg of high-purity cocaine, when they raided a building in Brick Lane.

He has handed back only £265,115 of the £2.1 million, despite facing a potential eight-year sentence for non-payment. No information was given to the latest hearing about the whereabouts of the £1.9 million “hidden assets”, which in 2005 a judge said he was “sure” Whiteway-Wilkinson possessed.

 

[Fez909]

Um..."Former public schoolboy Jules de Vere Whiteway-Wilkinson was jailed for 12 years in 2004".

And...

So what do you want to happen? Would you give him 8 more years?

 

[Ranbay]

Really want some coke right now after reading this..... only from someone not like him tho.

 

[Pickman's model]

Well, it may or may not be true. He's served 12 years in jail for something which shouldn't even be illegal and he's still got to pay back the money. I think deferring for a year is not overly lenient.

so you think being involved in the supply of adulterated.drugs should be legal

 

[Fez909]

so you think being involved in the supply of adulterated.drugs should be legal

No, I think selling coke should be legal. I think it should be regulated so that you cannot sell adulterated stuff, but that's not what he was convicted of.

 

[Pickman's model]

No, I think selling coke should be legal. I think it should be regulated so that you cannot sell adulterated stuff, but that's not what he was convicted of.

that's what he was doing tho

 

[Fez909]

that's what he was doing tho

And that is a direct consequence of it being illegal. Legalise it, regulate it, etc etc.

 

[twentythreedom]

He claims to be only able to pay back £500 a month. Ya Rly.

Do you have evidence that proves him able pay back more?

 

[Belushi]

Jules de Vere Whiteway-Wilkinson

Posh peoples names

 

[maomao]

Meh, very ambivalent about this. Selling coke in itself maybe shouldn't be a crime but making millions from others addiction and misery certainly should be. Whatever hurts him the most really.

 

[Pickman's model]

And that is a direct consequence of it being illegal. Legalise it, regulate it, etc etc.

but in the meantime yer man's doing a noble thing for right-thinking society

 

[Fez909]

but in the meantime yer man's doing a noble thing for right-thinking society

Nope, I didn't say that and you know it.

He's served his time; he's paying back his debts. Just not quite as quickly as editor hoped. What's the problem?

 

[Casually Red]

Meh, very ambivalent about this. Selling coke in itself maybe shouldn't be a crime but making millions from others addiction and misery certainly should be. Whatever hurts him the most really.

nailing him into a big box full of thumb tacks a wasps nest and 2 pitbulls and fucking it down a flight of stairs then

 

[coley]

but in the meantime yer man's doing a noble thing for right-thinking society

Bugger, I prefer him to be supplying beer as opposed to coke, but give the sod a chance and make sure he pays his taxes, pity the same line isn't being applied to bankers

 

[Pickman's model]

Nope, I didn't say that and you know it.

He's served his time; he's paying back his debts. Just not quite as quickly as editor hoped. What's the problem?

i didn't say you said it, did i

 

[Thimble Queen]

What's the issue here. Sorry if I'm being naive

 

[DrRingDing]

What's the issue here. Sorry if I'm being naive

This is chivalry in the proper sense; the ruling class looking after it's own regardless of what team they're on.

 

[Thimble Queen]

This is chivalry in the proper sense; the ruling class looking after it's own regardless of what team they're on.

Sounds like some kind of old boys club.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

"Jules de Vere Whiteway-Wilkinson"? Seriously? Amazed he ever served time at all tbh. (Did he actually serve time?)

 

[Awesome Wells]

Well, it may or may not be true. He's served 12 years in jail for something which shouldn't even be illegal and he's still got to pay back the money. I think deferring for a year is not overly lenient.

But it is illegal and I doubt anyone forced him to sell drugs, even if they went right up the noises of arseholes I don't care about.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

He's a cunt cos he chose to be born to posh, silly-name parents and then demanded to be sent to a posh school. And on top of that he had the fucking nerve to deal drugs, stealing work from a good, honest, working class dealer.

 

[seventh bullet]

Are you posh as well?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Are you posh as well?

Frightfully, old bean.

 

[marty21]

His brewery does make lovely ale

 

[Ranbay]

I went to private school, just saying it don't always work like.

 

[_angel_]

Hang on I thought drug dealers were meant to be a good thing?