Curfew, suspended sentence and director disqualification for UK construction cartelist

Mr Cooper is only the fifth individual to be sentenced for committing the cartel offence under section 188 of the Enterprise Act 2002 in the 14 years the offence has been on the statute book. All of these individuals have pleaded guilty (where individuals have pleaded not guilty, they have either been acquitted or the trial has collapsed). In this case, the CMA decided in June 2017 not to charge any other individuals. The CMA is understood to have an ongoing civil investigation under the Competition Act 1998. This is now likely to move forward following the sentencing. 

Whilst suspended sentences and director disqualifications were a feature of some of the previous sentencing, this is the first time that a curfew has been imposed on the offender.