Monday, Jul 23 2012
Couple who made £350,000 at car boot sales and on eBay are jailed . . . because they didn’t pay tax
The pair sold slimming pills, toothbrush heads and electrics at fetes and fairs, as well as the internet
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 11:31, 21 July 2012 | UPDATED: 23:31, 21 July 2012
A couple who evaded tax on more than £250,000 they made trading at car-boot sales has been jailed.
Gail Fox and Ronald Donkin made a fortune selling slimming pills, toothbrush heads and electrics at fetes and fairs, as well as on the internet.
The pair, from Sunderland, pocketed £260,000 between 2003 and 2010 but did not declare their earnings to the taxman. Fox made an extra £90,000 selling property on eBay. They both admitted the charges.
Jailed: Tax cheats Ronald Donkin and Gail Fox who made a fortune at car boots sales.

Fox, 47, admitted her dishonesty amounted to cheating the Inland Revenue out of almost £50,000. She also admitted a charge of mortgage fraud in relation to her giving false information while securing a loan to buy a council house. Newcastle Crown Court heard that when the couple were arrested, Fox had £90,000 in savings in bank accounts and Donkin had £180,000.
Their assets have now been frozen while prosecutors investigate them under the Proceeds of Crime Act with the aim of seizing whatever cash or property they have.
Judge James Goss QC jailed Fox for 12 months and Donkin for nine months. ahttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article