THE DIRECTORS of five haulage companies appeared at Teesside Crown
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Court last week, accused of bribing British Steel transport officials and the traffic clerk of another firm who handled their contracts.
The accused companies were Teesside Carriers 1963 Ltd, of Eaglescliffe, Cleveland; William Brunskill and Son (Transport), Graythorp, near Hartlepool; Econofreight, of Thornaby-on-Tees; Phillip E. Allick (Haulage), of Middles brough and Stiller Trans of Middleton-St-Gec County Durham.
They were charged a with their directors Fre Brown, 68, of Green L Middlesbrough (Teesside riers), William Brunskill, Westbourne Road, Hartle] Thomas Llewellyn, 48, of dale House, Osmothei North Yorks (Econofrei. Phillip Allick, 38, of Fit Close, Hilton-in-Clevel and Peter Heron, 42, of Ma Palms, Middleton St Ge (Stiller's). ,ether with five BSC port managers and a clerk from BTP Tioxide, de, they faced a total of trges of corruptly giving :eiving gifts and payas inducements to show rover haulage contracts, the haulage firms and directors, with the exin of Teesside Carriers, ed not guilty to the es and their trials will be Lt Teesside Crown Court dates.
.sside Carriers admitted ig a corrupt £40 payment e British Steel manager jving a £25 bribe to the traffic clerk. On these men charges Teesside were fined £5,000 and .ed to pay £1,000 legal lge Angus Stroyan, QC, told that "a cancer of iiracy" in British Steel's ;port department on ;ide came to light after a which took over Teesside ers called in the police.
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?. judge gave six-month sentences to three BSC gers and the traffic clerk pleaded guilty to taking s, and commented: "It's that the transport sector itish Steel on Teesside nfected by corruption. went undetected for and might still be so, but le very proper act of this tge company. orruption of this sort is ious. It puts an honest iessman in an impossible ion if he can't get work out resorting to corrupIt is part of the duty of the ts to try to stop the spread is disease of corruption." Baker said that the BTP ic clerk was given £2,500 'eesside Carriers over a id of 13 years and he adad receiving free petrol for e years from Stiller's tsport.