David Antrobus
Introduction
David Antrobus is a 39-year-old company director who was disqualified for ten years for his role in a scheme in which unauthorised Barclays overdrafts were used to move more than £1.6 million out of two transport companies in 2021. Antrobus received his ban at a High Court hearing in London in December 2025, where the court also disqualified his co-director Scott Dylan for 13 years, the judge describing Dylan as the driving force behind what he called a scheme that “can really be regarded as a scam”. Antrobus is one of four people disqualified over the affair, alongside Dylan, Dylan’s half-brother Daryl Dylan and director Jack Mason, whose bans together total 38 years. He has not served the 22-month contempt of court sentence imposed on him in 2024: a civil warrant remains outstanding.
Background Information
The companies at the centre of the scheme, Oldcocdt Ltd and Oldcostl Ltd, traded under the names C&D Transport Solutions Ltd and Six Ten Logistics Ltd when their Barclays accounts were opened in May 2021. Daryl Dylan, the named director of both companies, signed the account application forms in late April 2021 and named Scott Dylan as the primary contact. Four accounts were opened the following month and used from mid-July 2021, when unarranged overdrafts began carrying transfers to connected companies. The Insolvency Service investigated the scheme and supported the court proceedings, which it summarised in a July 2026 release marking the final disqualification in the series.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Civil disqualification plus a contempt sentence. Antrobus’s ten-year ban is a civil sanction imposed by the High Court; the 22-month prison sentence was for contempt of court after breaches of freezing orders in the Barclays proceedings, not for a criminal offence tried by jury. The Insolvency Service’s release records the court’s findings in the disqualification proceedings.
Barclays secured freezing orders over the two companies’ accounts on 24 September 2021 after the unarranged overdrafts had been used to move more than £1.6 million to connected companies, and demanded repayment of £1,056,970 from Oldcocdt Ltd and £600,114 from Oldcostl Ltd. No repayments were made and both companies entered liquidation in January 2022. The court’s December 2025 hearing left Antrobus with a ten-year disqualification, alongside the 13-year ban imposed on Scott Dylan the same day.
The contempt findings predated the ban: in October 2024, Antrobus, Scott Dylan and Jack Mason were each sentenced to 22 months in prison for contempt of court after breaching the freezing orders connected to the Barclays proceedings. The Insolvency Service recorded that Antrobus and Mason both have civil warrants outstanding and have not served their sentences, and that Antrobus was declared bankrupt in October 2025.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The agency’s Chief Investigator, Victoria Edgar, framed the combined outcome: “We have now secured director disqualifications worth a combined 38 years against both Dylans, Antrobus and Mason, proving that civil sanctions are an effective tool against those who have so clearly demonstrated they are unfit to direct companies.” She said acting as a director “comes with responsibilities which must be taken seriously”.
The release recorded no public response from Antrobus to the disqualification, the contempt sentence or the bankruptcy. The sequencing of the consequences — contempt sentence in 2024, bankruptcy in 2025, disqualification in December 2025 — was set out by the Insolvency Service as part of its summary of how the case concluded.
Current Status
Antrobus’s ten-year disqualification prevents him from acting as a director or taking part in the promotion, formation or management of a company without the permission of the court. The 22-month contempt sentence imposed in October 2024 has not been served: the Insolvency Service recorded in July 2026 that his civil warrant remained outstanding. His bankruptcy, declared in October 2025, remains part of the public record alongside the disqualification.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The ban removes Antrobus from company management until well into the 2030s, and the outstanding warrant means the contempt sentence can still be activated. The combination of a High Court disqualification, an unserved prison sentence for contempt and a bankruptcy leaves his record in company law unusually complete: every civil enforcement tool used against the scheme’s participants landed on him. Any future directorship would require the court’s permission and would surface the December 2025 findings.
Sources
- The Insolvency Service / GOV.UK, “Fourth company director disqualified for role in £13.9 million Barclays ‘scam’,” 27 July 2026 — source