£250K Wedding venue boss who cashed in and left brides to be in the lurch banned for three years

THE former boss of a popular Scots wedding venue which went bust leaving couples' big days in tatters has been banned from acting as a director over the firm's collapse.

- SALLY HIND

Ty Crossley, former director of Broomhall Castle, near Stirling, has been rapped by the Insolvency Service over the handling of the business's accounts before it went into liquidation which reveal he was paid £250,000 but failed to pay HMRC more than £470,000.

The venue, now under new ownership, ceased trading in 2022, blaming Covid for leaving 18 brides and groomsto-be with nowhere to go.

Crossley, 53, has now been disqualified from acting as a company director for more than three years.

Mike Smith, chief investigator at the Insolvency. Service, said Crossley failed to ensure Broomhall Castle submitted returns and payments to HM Revenue and Customs, leaving debts of more than £475,000 to HMRC from a total debt of more than £512,000 at liquidation.