A former St Helens pub owner who failed to disclose his bankruptcy when he applied for Covid support funds has been handed a suspended prison sentence. Gary Wright did not inform the bank that he was bankrupt when he obtained a £25,000 Bounce Back Loan in the summer of 2020.
The 46-year-old made the application on behalf of the Talbot Ale House on Duke Street in St Helens town centre, the pub he ran before his bankruptcy earlier that year.
Wright, of Bleak Hill Road, St Helens, was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for two years, at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday, April 24.
He was also ordered to complete 150 hours of unpaid work and pay £1,500 in costs.
The Bounce Back Loan was repaid in full shortly…
