A noodle bar franchise boss who kept running his business after being disqualified as a company director has been sentenced and handed a fresh 10-year ban. Desmond Pheby continued managing Wok & Go Franchise UK Limited, which sold franchises for the Wok & Go noodle takeaway chain, despite an earlier seven-year director disqualification for failing to keep accounting records. He also used a false employment document in civil court proceedings which presented him as a £12-an-hour “Franchise Relationship Manager”.
Pheby, of Harley Drive, Higher Kinnerton, Flintshire, North Wales, was sentenced at Chester Crown Court. He received 12 months in prison, suspended for two years, and was ordered to complete 200 hours of…