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Monday, February 17, 2014

A BBC talent executive's husband jailed for blackmailing another media firm executive

Tommy Roye the husband of a BBC executive Victoria has been jailed for masterminding a plot to extort money from the chief executive of a media firm
Tommy Roye, husband of a BBC executive Victoria Roye 
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Tommy Roye, 39, been jailed after he masterminded a blackmail plot against the head of a media firm. The husband of a BBC Talent Executive for Entertainment North demanded cash over a two month period, from Craig Farley-Jones, 37. Mr. Roye hired two men to have Craig’s car burnt on his driveway because his business partner owed £30,000 to him and his associates. He told him upon the argument: “I will f**k you up now, you don’t know who you are messing with. I’ll f**k you up and put you in that skip over there.”
Mr. Craig received text messages reading: “If you don’t reply within an hour we will send someone.” Roye was arrested a day after the arson attack on his people carrier vehicle and found two ornamental Samurai swords and a machete at his home in Urmston, Greater Manchester. He has been jailed for six years after being convicted of blackmail, conspiracy to commit arson and threatening to destroy property. Three accomplices were also jailed for their part in the plot. Roye’s wife Victoria, was not in court for the hearing.

Roye, 39, demanded cash over a two month period during which he recruited two enforcers to have his victim's car torched on his driveway. Innocent businessman Craig Farley-Jones, 37, had been hounded because his business partner owed £30,000 to Roye and his associates
 Victim's car torched on his driveway
Marcel Lauder accomplice of Tommy Roye,  pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit arson and blackmail at an earlier hearing
Marcel Lauder accomplice
Jamie Keegan accomplice of Tommy Roye, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit arson and blackmail at an earlier hearing
Jamie Keegan accomplice
Father of one Roye has now been jailed for six years after being convicted of blackmail, conspiracy to commit arson and threatening to destroy property. Roye's wife Victoria, 41, a BBC Talent Executive for Entertainment North was not in court for the hearing
Mr. and Mrs Roye
Pose: Mrs Roye in her days as a model
Mrs Roye in her days as a model

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