Father and son sentenced over covid construction loan fraud

A Bristol builder who overstated the income from his construction companies to secure two Covid Bounce Back Loans totalling £100,000 has been handed a suspended jaul sentence.
James Leslie, 45, of Dundry, was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for 18 months, when he appeared at Bristol Crown Court this week.
His father William Leslie, 74, and of the same address, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud in June after making a second Bounce Back Loan application for the Logan Housing L