Overview
- Bradford Crown Court sentenced Hawkins, 66, to five years and three months in prison and banned him from being a company director for 10 years, with asset confiscation hearings to follow.
- He pleaded guilty to fraudulent trading covering late 2018 to February 2020 while running Specialist Cars of Malton.
- Prosecutors put total losses at about £1.5 million suffered by roughly 45 to 50 people.
- Tactics cited in court included selling owners’ cars without consent, taking payments without delivering vehicles, pitching fake Porsche investments, and using forged documents and number plates.
- The company’s February 2020 liquidation thwarted civil recoveries for many victims, and the judge called his conduct a sustained, calculated campaign of dishonesty.