Director must pay back 'wages'

Dec 14 2005

By Neil Hodgson, Liverpool Echo

A DIRECTOR of the firm that sacked 600 Liverpool workers by text has been ordered to pay back £250,000 "wages". Deborah Langford claimed the cash while her husband Mark was running the scandal-hit claims company Accident Group. But Manchester high court ruled against Mrs Langford after hearing she had done nothing to earn the wages. It ordered her to pay the money back to liquidators administering the collapsed firm. Story continues ADVERTISEMENT The claims company shut up shop in May last year with debts of £100m. It sacked 2,500 workers, including the 600 Liverpool-based staff, by text message. Liquidators have since been trying to recover company cash. A judge ordered Mrs Lang-ford to pay £400,000 in wages, interest and costs. She was business development director at the company. Merseyside Trades Council is pursuing compensation claims for 1,000 of the 2,500 former Accident Group staff. Council president Alec McFadden, who also sits on the Accident Group liquidation committee, said: "The tide of justice is at last turning. All the former Accident Group staff will be a bit happier this Christmas - Deborah Langford has been forced to pay up."

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