Security boss faces jail after court confiscates his criminal gains
A convicted Lincoln security boss who used unlicenced door staff has had over £45,000 in hidden assets confiscated by a court.
Trevor Frater, who was a director of the now dissolved Elite Door Staff Ltd, had paid less than one per cent of a confiscation order made in 2021 for criminal proceeds imposed for the money he made using unlicenced door staff.
He faced a further confiscation order of over £10,500 for similar convictions under the Private Security Industry Act in 2023. Now the Security Industry Authority (SIA) has used the Proceeds of Crime Act to seize over £44,500 after financial investigation revealed previously unknown assets.
Frater must now pay the orders by July 25 this year or face eight months in prison with the confiscation order still owed plus accrued interest.
When the confiscation order was made for the 2021 convictions Frater’s available assets were declared to be £391.93. This was despite a determination from the Court that he had received almost £34,000 in financial benefit from his crimes.
The SIA Financial Investigator was able to discover that over £100,000 was now available to Mr Frater, which meant that the 2021 confiscation order could be revisited to ensure he has to pay back £33,979.51 of his criminal benefit from the previous offending. A new confiscation order was granted in relation to the 2023 conviction for £10,539.27.
Frater originally pleaded guilty to supplying unlicensed security staff, while being unlicensed himself, at Grimsby Magistrates’ Court in May 2021. Frater was previously convicted for supplying unlicensed security guards in 2018 and as a result had his (SIA) licence revoked. The SIA brought both prosecutions.
His convictions include providing unlicensed staff to a bar in Louth and round-the-clock security to G4 Fuels Ltd, one of the owners of Brookenby Business Park near Market Rasen.
Pete Easterbrook, Security Industry Authority Director of Inspections & Enforcement said: “On multiple occasions across the last five years, Trevor Frater has put the public’s safety at risk by both acting as an unlicensed security operative and deploying unlicensed security operatives. Not only did he put innocent people at risk, but he also profited substantially from these actions.
“These confiscation orders, and especially the reassessment of the 2021 Order, make clear to all bad actors within this industry: you will not profit from your crime. We will find your assets, no matter how they are hidden, and recover them.”