Door supervisor and company boss convicted for unlicensed work

On 2 September last year at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court, Tilley pleaded guilty to two offences under Section 3 of the Private Security Industry Act 2001 and one offence under Section 1 of the Fraud Act 2006. This was due to Tilley continuing to work as a door supervisor illegally at multiple venues around Weymouth after his SIA door supervisor licence expired in June 2024.

At his sentencing on 25 November, Tilley was ordered to pay a fine of £80 per offence, as well as a victim surcharge of £96 and prosecution costs of £164, totalling £500 overall.

Tilley was deployed to those venues by a company named Chesil Security Ltd, of which William Joynes was the sole director. Joynes then admitted in an interview under caution with the SIA to deploying Tilley without checking the latter had renewed his SIA licence after June 2024.

He also admitted that he had not complied with a request by the SIA officer looking after the case to provide information and that he had no reasonable excuse. Finally, he admitted to lying in his response by saying that, after Tilley’s licence had expired, he was only working as a concierge at one of the venues rather than as a door supervisor.

As a result, Joynes pleaded guilty to two offences under Section 5 and Section 23 of the Private Security Industry Act 2001 as well as one offence under Section 19 and another under Section 22 of the same law. He also appeared on behalf of his former company, Chesil Security Ltd, and entered pleas on its behalf for two offences contrary to Section 5 of the Private Security Industry Act 2001.

William Joynes was sentenced on 26 January this year and given a 12-month Community Order, which included 50 hours of unpaid work. He was also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £500 and a victim surcharge of £114. His company Chesil Security Ltd was fined £400, as well as being ordered to pay prosecution costs of £500 and a victim surcharge of £160.

Nicola Bolton, criminal investigations manager at the SIA, said: “By knowingly deploying an unlicensed security operative through his company Chesil Security Ltd, William Joynes put the public at risk for his own profit. Equally, Mark Tilley did similar. I’m glad that this risk was reflected in their sentencing, which includes 50 hours of unpaid work and payments collectively totalling over £2,000. This sentencing makes clear to anyone operating in the security industry who seeks to ignore the law that the penalty for doing so will be significant.”