Barclays Bank agents allegedly burgle townhouse
Shady characters: Left: David Foskett of Copping Joyce, one of the Barclays joint LPA Receivers and right, looking smug, John Duffy, Legal Director of magic circle law firm, Addleshaw Goddard in Manchester who orchestrated the break in after advising both the Bank and the Receivers that obtaining possession was not the way to go as ‘we may or may not get possession’
EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION
No borrower is safe with Barclays Burglars and their agents on the loose. It’s ‘The Purge’ as in the film; National lawlessness. – ‘THEY’LL JUST DRILL YOUR LOCKS AND TAKE OVER YOUR HOME – NO LAW NECESSARY‘, says Perseus Ventures Limited in the B.V.I, claimant in the case currently ongoing in the King’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in London.
Under the English judicial kleptocracy, it appears that laws no longer apply to banks, liar lawyers and their affiliates. We reveal that largely unregulated and unaccountable rogues have made a mockery of statutory law, diminishing the English rule of law.
The law in relation to possession of residential property in England & Wales
Part 55 of the Civil Procedure Rules (“CPR”) is mandatory law which must be administered to gain possession of any residential property in England and Wales.
Nobody has a right to bypass the law, except in limited circumstances which may only be provided for by a court order. CPR 55.2 sets out the scope of the rule. In law “must be used” is taken as read, absolutely without exception.
(1) The procedure set out in this Section of this Part must be used where the claim includes –
(a) a possession claim brought by a –
(i) landlord (or former landlord);
(ii) mortgagee; or (iii) licensor (or former licensor);
(b) a possession claim against trespassers; or
(c) a claim by a tenant seeking relief from forfeiture.
It is apparent that Barclays Bank PLC, its corporate lawyers at Addleshaw Goddard, and the Bank’s agents, the LPA Receivers who failed to receive, take issue with that.
Our investigation reveals something far more sinister, the common synergy in fraudulently failing to judge on the crucial fact, evidence or point at issue that required judging on to ensure the fair and proper administration of justice.
The Swedish Quays occupied residential premises
94 Rope Street, Swedish Quays, SE16 7TF (“Property”), sits in a Grade II Listed complex of 95 units built between 1986-1990 by David Price and Gordon Cullen for Roger Malcolm Homes.
The Property itself is a 4-bedroom riverside townhouse, and in fact, with not so far off as many twists and turns as the river itself.
The Barclays Receivers just wanted to sell the Property off down the river, claiming over a quarter of a million pounds in fees for failing to receive.
Assisting them, aiding and abetting their fraud was the Bank, instructing them to procure a valuable security by deception by adding £250,000 of alleged criminal property (fraudulent fees) to their legitimate security (the Barclays mortgage).
David Cameron’s former P.A, then going by the name of Suzan Walsh, amongst 5 other names with 10 birthdays, who was never married to Mr Martin Walsh, is actually Suzan Caryl Cohen / Suzan Veale.
An undischarged bankrupt, in 2010, purporting to control the Company’s affairs under various aliases, Cohen forged a lease purporting to be between Perseus Ventures Limited and her company over the Property.
Martin Walsh, a capital markets investor, purchased the Property from Cohen back in November 2006 as an investment property held by Perseus Ventures Limited, a BVI trust company.
After breaking in, Suzan, through white Mid Sloan, had begun to lease the Property out to various tenants. Under the forged lease, she was collecting the fraudulently obtained rent proceeds through White Mid Sloan, whilst bankrupt. Her trustee did nothing about that!
White Mid Sloan had been pilfering rent from the Property between 2010 – 2020 (at least), unbeknown to Martin, who is resident in Hong Kong, until 2018.
Barclays Secured Facility
Martin took out a homeowner loan facility secured against the Property for £600,000 in 2006.
It was mayhem for Martin, who was then threatened with all kinds of proceedings by Cohen’s trustee in bankruptcy, who did bring proceedings alleging some ‘transfer of the property at undervalue’, but after completing his investigations, discontinued the proceedings by consent.
Due to the myriad of complications caused by Cohen and her vehicle, Perseus stopped paying the Barclays loan. Martin voluntarily offered to appoint David Foskett and Richard Alford of Copping Joyce as LPA Receivers who were to have gained possession of and realised the Property and associated assets to pay off the Bank’s loan. The LPA Receivers were appointed on 14 March 2018.
In 2018 the LPA Receivers acting for Barclays found that a company called Live Work Study London Ltd were occupying the Property without Perseus’s knowledge or consent under a 3-year lease.
In their letter to Martin of 9 May 2018, the Barclays LPA Receivers said this:
“Please note that we have written to Live Work Study London to inform them that the rent is due to us, and that any rent payable to White Mid Sloan Ltd will be lost, as its still due to us. This is in spite of the co-director of White Mid Sloan LTD, Ms S. Veale assumption that the receivers do not collect the rent.”
1 year, 7 months & 11 days later
On 19 December 2019, Martin and Perseus were kept in the dark as to how much rent the LPA Receivers were receiving from the purported tenants of the Property. In his email of that date, David Foskett said this:
“We informed the Police, they are aware but unable to do anything until a possession order has been obtained”
“We are afraid that it looks like there will have to be a court case taken by the bank, which gives them far more chance of obtaining possession more quickly than by us as receivers.”
5 years, 3 months & 10 days after Mr Foskett said the rent was due to him
On 18 August 2023, during a recorded call which was transcribed and adduced in the proceedings against the LPA Receivers, their lawyers and Barclays Bank PLC. Mr Foskett said this:
“I was waiting for license to assign, selling this property at a very good price for an excellent purchaser. The next thing, someone breaks in”.
“Now, we have advised Martin what the legalities were, and in terms of the receiver possibly trying to take possession, which were, we were advised was not the way to go, because we may or may not get possession, and then we’ll be lumbered with ASTs for God knows how long, and possibly have, assured tenancies, which would have smashed the value of the property. So then from that moment onwards, all that’s happened is Suzanne Walsh has taken the rent and not withstanding my lawyers and dealing with her lawyers and this, that and the other, she has kept the rent.
“So, so first of all, first of all, I managed to get rent being paid to me, rather than White Mid Sloan, I then managed to get them out. Right? So, then we had the property vacant, whilst we were selling to owner occupiers. Then, we had the issue with… First, then we had the issue once with bloody Land Registry because Suzanne Veale put Caution on the title. Then, we were about to sell it on the other one when we had license to assign issues with the landlord regarding marking, converting it from a property to an HMO. Then, we had the issues with the license to assign. So, the charity then wanted to go and get a further survey carried out but they couldn’t because Suzanne Veale had broken in. And at that juncture, all the rent has been going to Susanne Veale. It’s quite straightforward. And since that period of time, I have, as the receiver, have been trying to get the bank to pursue a possession order for, well, since 2019”
In the last 3 minutes of the call, Mr Foskett appeared to have inadvertently revealed his motive:
“I also charge a sitting fee of man, of a, um, of an annual, on an annual basis, which is standard insolvency Law of Property practice, law of property practice, to which I haven’t charged. So I could have charged him 50 odd thousand quid, which I haven’t, but I probably will do. I see the way he’s gonna go. Coz if he’s gonna start, sod it, I’ll charge the whole lot, you know, at the end of the day, I’m trying to be reasonable and I understand his frustration, but it’s nothing to do with the Law of Property Act receiver. It’s to do 100% with the bank“
Just one-day prior to the call with Mr Foskett:
On 17 August 2023 Jenni Burgess, a manager of Barclays Bank PLC within the recoveries division in Manchester responsible for managing the account wrote to Martin of Perseus, saying this:
“As you are aware, Barclays have appointed David Foskett and Richard Alford as joint fixed charge receivers over 94 Rope Street to take possession, manage and ultimately sell the property”
Perseus’s complaint was about Barclays agents failing to receive over £300,000 in rent and then charging over £250,000 for failing in their duty, but they did also fail to take possession of, manage and to have sold the property.
Barclays made no mention of the failure to receive. They knew however that Perseus’s complaint was about the receivers failing to receive and causing hundreds of thousands in loss for over 5 years in doing so.
Could they have done it knowing that the judges would cover it up for them?
3 years, 7 months, 30 days later
Putting it into perspective, that’s 43 months and 30 days since the LPA Receivers said on 19 December 2019 that “it looks like there will have to be a court case taken by the bank, which gives them far more chance of obtaining possession more quickly than by us as receivers”.
Lies, lies and lies with the left not knowing what the right is doing because the middle told them not to do it
One day prior to Mr Foskett telling Perseus their lawyers advised them not to go for possession “as they may or may not get possession”, the Bank is saying that the Receivers were appointed to “take possession, manage and ultimately sell the property”.
So sick of their outright failure in duty and failure to gain vacant possession of the Property, on 26 July 2023 Perseus obtained a possession order for the Property and evicted the illegal occupiers.
By August 2023 the Walsh family were in occupation, having finally been granted the order by Clerkenwell and Shoreditch County Court after the Court found that the Cohen / White Mid Sloan 2010 lease was forged, and all the rent from the Property was pilfered.
The lawyers ‘piggies in the middle’ came in to raid the piggy bank then cover up
John Duffy and Emma Atkinson at Addleshaw Goddard in Leeds and Manchester were appointed and acted for the Bank and the LPA Receivers since 2018,instrumentally misadvising them and orchestrating their abuse of fiduciary duty over their 5-year plus tenure in failing to take possession of, failing to have received, and failing to have managed and sold the Property.
29 September 2023 – Barclays Burglars are instructed to break in by their lawyers
The lawyers were alleged to have lied about the rent the LPA Receivers admitted they collected to evade the fact they had a duty to have collected over £300,000 in rent.
In their official letter to Perseus dated 29 September 2023, 1 month and 11-daysafter their client admitted to collecting the rent, and 5 years, 4 months and 20-dayssince Mr Foskett’s letter where he stated:
“We have written to Live Work Study London to inform them that the rent is due to us, and that any rent payable to White Mid Sloan Ltd will be lost, as its still due to us”.
In exercise of his professional duties to the Bank and their client, Mr Duffy, the Legal Director of Addleshaw Goddard had to get the Bank and Receivers to approve the letter prior to sending it to Perseus. The Bank, its agent and indeed their lawyers knew therefore the statements made by Duffy were blatantly false. He said this:
“To avoid any questions of a periodic tenancy or other tenancy arrangement being established or implied, the Receivers have not collected rents from WMSL or any other occupiers during their appointment as fixed charge receivers over the Property.
Live Work Study London Limited
The Receivers were previously aware that Live Work Study London Limited (LWSL) occupied the
Property pursuant to a purported company let agreement dated 29 April 2017. We understand that the purported company let agreement was for a term of three years, commencing from 29 April 2017.”
Collection of rents
The Receivers do not recognise the purported rights of WMSL and LWSL to occupy the Property. To avoid any question that a periodic tenancy has been created or implied, the Receivers have not collected rents from WMSL, LWSL or other any occupiers of the Property.
As stated in our letter dated 16 August 2023, the Receivers were made aware of residential occupiers occupying the Property in November 2019.
The residential occupiers were in occupation of the Property without the Receivers’ knowledge or consent and steps were taken to request that they voluntarily vacate the Property. Unfortunately the occupiers did not vacate as requested.
Due to the unauthorised occupiers being residential occupiers, the Receivers were unable to further steps to remove them from the Property in the absence of a Possession Order being granted by the Court.
Next steps
Our clients are aware that PVL and/or Martin Walsh is in possession of the Property. In our letter dated 13 September 2023, we requested that voluntary possession of the Property be handed over to the Receivers immediately.
No steps have been taken by PVL and/or Martin Walsh to hand over the Property to the Receivers. The Receivers are now taking steps to secure possession of the Property as they are entitled to do under the powers given to them in the legal charge over the Property.
Should PVL and/or Martin Walsh seek to re-take possession of the Property, our clients will have no alternative than to consider injunctive relief.
Allegations against Barclays, the Receivers, Addleshaw Goddard LLP, Emma Atkinson and John Duffy
All allegations made against Addleshaw Goddard LLP, Ms Emma Atkinson, Mr John Duffy, Barclays and the Receivers are denied and will be robustly defended, should a claim be pursued.“
An email from Mr Duffy at 18.05PM on the same day said this:
“To update you per the comments in the paragraph headed “Next step” in our letter of today’s date, the Receivers have now taken possession of the Property and secured it”.
Barclays Burglars, their lawyers and the receivers who charge over £250,000 for failing to receive, broke into the residential property occupied by the Walsh family, just a matter of days after Mr Foskett told Perseus that he was advised by his lawyers not to go for a possession order, as they “may or may not get possession“.
The allegedly corrupt judges were waiting to cover up
Perseus’s case finally got to the High Court King’s Bench Division, with a hearing set for 3 May 2024 and such strong evidence proving serious breach of fiduciary duty, breaking in with intent to steal and wrongdoing, one would have thought justice was within easy reach.
After failing to provide directions and concealing all Perseus’s evidence, the 4th judge alleged by Perseus to have fallen into line on the cover up, ‘Mrs Justice’ Collins-Rice, a former government lawyer turned judge, said this:
“When was the last time they broke into the Property?”
Before dishonestly certifying Perseus’s application for an interim declaration that the Receivers did have a duty to receive the rent and to have taken possession of, and managed the property, as “totally without merit’ meaning ‘no more or less than bound to fail’.
The parties were asked to comment, but they deliberately decided against doing so.
The case continues and we will report on it again after the next hearing scheduled in June 2025.
