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Is convicted ex accountant Darren Upton practicing?

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  • northernladuk
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    Wouldn't a quick check of linkedin show one Darren was working while the other was being detained by Her Majesty?

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  • JB3000
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    It's not about the word police, it's about you claiming certain things as facts, and all I've asked is for you to back up your facts with evidence.

    Please provide some evidence to back up your claims, that's all I want to see.
    We both know I have no evidence for my claims. If I did I would have presented it already.

    I am happy to back down on this and say I'm merely speculating. And I'm happy for the mods to snip my comments that are against the forum's rules. I'm happy to be banned too because I hardly ever comment on these boards anyway.

    I don't want to come across like a flat earth conspiracy theorist (although I accept that this desire is coming a little too late now).

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  • WTFH
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    Originally posted by JB3000 View Post
    Fair enough, I would like to retract that wording and replace it with the word "similar" if that is OK with the word police.
    It's not about the word police, it's about you claiming certain things as facts, and all I've asked is for you to back up your facts with evidence.

    Please provide some evidence to back up your claims, that's all I want to see.

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  • jamesbrown
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    Originally posted by JB3000 View Post
    Fair enough, I would like to retract that wording and replace it with the word "similar" if that is OK with the word police.
    You may not realise it, but WTFH is doing you a favour...

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  • JB3000
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    "absolutely identical"?

    Please provide evidence. All you have stated is they were both born in the same month (and provided no proof to back that up)
    Fair enough, I would like to retract that wording and replace it with the word "similar" if that is OK with the word police.

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  • WTFH
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    Originally posted by JB3000 View Post
    absolutely identical birth details and career history and geography and spectacles with a totally unrelated Darren.
    "absolutely identical"?

    Please provide evidence. All you have stated is they were both born in the same month (and provided no proof to back that up)

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  • jamesbrown
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    Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
    Something fishy going on there. Three of the 4 directors also run Thorntons Accounting at the same address.
    https://www.thorntonsaccountants.com.../meet-the-team
    Someone was pinching the office chocolates.

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  • JB3000
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    Originally posted by JB3000 View Post
    Both born in December
    Both specialising in working with IT consultants
    Both unqualified ('one' of the Darren's has been kicked out of ACCA for 5 years)
    Both members of contractor UK
    Both good at getting things ('one' got contractor's money while 'the other' got clients from his old employer/Dynamo)
    Both wear glasses. Check Darren's LinkedIn profile cartoon picture. Weird how he has a cartoon profile pic. Interestingly the Fox Bartfield website has recently taken down all the cartoon pictures of the staff.

    Population of Leeds is only around 500k. Probably 250k when thinking about just the men. I guess in a pool of 250k people it could just be coincidence that they are identical twins (rather than the same people)?


    (Chance of identical twins is actually quite high, 1 in 250 births, so there could theoretically be 1,000 contractor accountants all called Darren living in Leeds.)
    Another thought, Darren describes himself as owner of Fox Bartfield on Linked In. However if you check Companies House he is not a director which seems a little bit strange (I know shareholder and director mean different things). I wonder what is preventing Darren from becoming a director? A disqualification perhaps?

    If these people are genuinely two different people I unreservedly apologize for my previous 2 posts. And it just appears that Darren is just extremely unlucky to share similar birth details and career history and geography and spectacles with a totally unrelated Darren.

    Alternatively, in chasing those big entrepreneur bucks, did Darren return to self employment in haste? Probably should have just stayed employed and no one would have been any wiser.

    I'm sure there is a simple explanation for all of this? Right?
    Last edited by JB3000; 16 June 2018, 12:36.

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  • JB3000
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    Originally posted by ZARDOZ View Post
    What has this to do with there being 2
    Ex Director Accountant Darrens from Leeds
    born in 1971 on CUK?
    Both born in December
    Both specialising in working with IT consultants
    Both unqualified ('one' of the Darren's has been kicked out of ACCA for 5 years)
    Both members of contractor UK
    Both good at getting things ('one' got contractor's money while 'the other' got clients from his old employer/Dynamo)
    Both wear glasses. Check Darren's LinkedIn profile cartoon picture. Weird how he has a cartoon profile pic. Interestingly the Fox Bartfield website has recently taken down all the cartoon pictures of the staff.

    Population of Leeds is only around 500k. Probably 250k when thinking about just the men. I guess in a pool of 250k people it could just be coincidence that they are identical twins (rather than the same people)?


    (Chance of identical twins is actually quite high, 1 in 250 births, so there could theoretically be 1,000 contractor accountants all called Darren living in Leeds.)

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  • northernladuk
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    Originally posted by Alan @ BroomeAffinity View Post
    Can’t help thinking this lot should have done a bit of research before naming their firm.

    https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/c...36424/officers
    Something fishy going on there. Three of the 4 directors also run Thorntons Accounting at the same address.
    https://www.thorntonsaccountants.com.../meet-the-team

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