for duping investors out of £874,000 in property scam


  • Liam James Collins and partner David Bone took £874,000 from investors between January 2010 and April 2011
  • 14-year bankruptcy restrictions disqualifies pair from being company directors
  • The pair each owed creditors £4.5million


A former TV talent show star has been banned from directing a company for 14 years for swindling hopeful investors in a phantom multi-million pound property scheme. Liam James Collins gained national fame as a semi-finalist on Britain's Got Talent in 2009 as part of the dance duo ‘Faces of Disco’ - the 34-year-old and his cousin and business partner David Bone amassed £874,000 from unsuspecting members of the public. Investors were promised returns as high as 10 per cent on their investment in the 'Collins and Bone' property scheme, which purported to make money out of buying and renovating houses to rent to students.....Read more here