The headline reads: "CPS incompetent delay leaves Eleanor de Freitas's bereaved parents facing loss of their home after 12-year fight for justice"
Read that and you would assume he is losing his house because of how the CPS handled the prosecution of his daughter in 2014.
The public record tells a rather different story.
In August 2022, Judge Passfield at the High Court ordered Mr de Freitas to pay £130,812.26 in unpaid taxes and penalties.
At paragraph 7 and 8 of the judgment, the court recorded that "HMRC presented a bankruptcy petition against the Debtor for unpaid self-assessment tax, interest and penalties in the tax years from 1998/99 to 2000/01 and 2005/06 to 2012/13" and "since at least the 1998/99 tax year, the Debtor has carried on business as a financial adviser on a self-employed basis".
A financial adviser. Eleven tax years of unpaid tax. All before his daughter Eleanor was prosecuted.
He didn't pay. He was declared bankrupt in May 2023.
An important detail or two, you might think, to leave out of a press release about losing your home. The GoFundMe page, presumably, won't be far behind.
But this won't be the first time Mr de Freitas has made omissions, stated half-truths or manipulated facts. Read on, for more examples.
Bankruptcy: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4367852
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| Journalist Julie Bindel reposting the press release. |
