A MALVERN businessman has been disqualified for seven years in respect of his conduct as a company director.

Keith William Fuller, of 9 Alexandra Road, Link Top, Malvern, was disqualified for failing to file annual accounts with the Registrar of Companies, making false accounting entries, paying himself "undue and excessive" amounts to the detriment of the company's creditors, not paying tax and misappropriating company funds.

The company, Barneshall Press Limited, carried on business as jobbing printers from Orchard Street, Worcester, and went into liquidation on March 3, 1999, with assets of £61,974, liabilities of £290,434 and an estimated deficiency of £228,559.