LOVED-UP cousins who fiddled their company books to cheat the taxman out of £220,000 also liquidated their business in Andover leaving unpaid debts of over £250,000 to Test Valley Borough Council, the Advertiser can exclusively reveal.

Cunning Miriam Simcock, 64, and Gordon Matchett, 71, ran three engineering firms including Freepower, which changed its name to Waste2Energy in 2012.

The Reith Way-based business operated in the town from 2010 until earlier this year before going into liquidation leaving behind £251,033.19 worth of unpaid debts from 2011/12 to 2014/15.

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