How Jason Hill (Videscape company director) intentionally misled auditors Knight Goodhead to fabricate a directors loan account

When Jason Hill removed me unlawfully and unfairly from my own company, Videscape limited (Clickasnap.com) he did it by fabricating a series of accounts in league with his accountant Jen Todd from Silkbow accounting based in southampton. These two have been working together for about 20 years. Whilst they could fabricate a directors loan account between them, they needed an official view of it to actually make it appear credible. To do that, they commissioned Knight Goodhead auditors, who, shockingly, carried out an audit of a companies accounts without confirming any of the information given to them by Jason Hill and Jen Todd. This led to an audit, where legitimate business expenses were classed as theft, fraud and embezzlement and ultimately used to remove me from the company. Below is our statement, given to the police to show how it was done:

Introduction:

A Key part of all these cases, my instant and unlawful dismissal, my unlawful arrest, and the alleged and fabricated directors loan account all centre around the Knight Goodhead report and the information conveyed to them solely by Jason Hill and Jenny Todd. This audit, an audit that was supposedly to ready the company for an IPO that has never happened, and there is no date for it to happen, did not involve me. The founder and director of the company for a period of ten years. The individual who was solely responsible for building this company from nothing to a multi-million pound business with no external institutional investment. The day I found out about this audit, was shortly after all my access to company communications had been removed from me, and I had been summarily dismissed without warning

In this statement, I will analyse and present evidence as to what the audit would have been like had I been involved. It will demonstrate, with proof, that Hill, Davenport and Todd (A registered accountant) will go to extraordinary lengths, including fabrication, deletion and tampering of evidence, which has been presented in both civil and criminal cases, to ensure that their lucrative positions are not taken from them. Their aim, with this audit, was to destroy me, my reputation, my life and ten years of my lifes work. Further to this, they removed me from my own company and then have proceeded to attempt to bankrupt me.

This statement will further demonstrate that the current directors of the company cannot be trusted to account for anything truthfully or accurately and will modify company accounts for their own purposes and in their sole interests against the interests of the company and the shareholders as a whole.

All invoices were sent to hubdoc where the accountant would then analyse  them, query if required and then add them onto the companies accounting software. It was impossible (to my knowledge) for any invoice to be accounted for without going through this process.

The company operates in one of the most competitive online markets in the world (Photography). Marketing the platform requires ‘out of the box’ thinking and unique strategies to ensure the platform stands out from long established competition such as Instagram and Flickr. The platform became a multi-million pound business because of this methodology which was pioneered and implemented solely by myself.

Knight Goodhead report Exhibit TO-03A

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1. Paragraph 6 states that they have placed their reliance on the accounting software being up to date and correctly reconciled and have taken representations from Jason Hill and Jenny Todd
2. Paragraph 7 states ‘Certain transactions identified by Tom Oswald’ Given I was not involved nor had any knowledge of the audit, how were any transactions identified by myself? Who and what were the auditors informed about transactions supposedly identified by myself?
3. Approach: discissions with Jason Hill regarding his ‘suspicions’ suspicions which have never been made known to myself
4. The last paragraph states the companies banking facilities were HSBC, Capital on Tap, Paypal, Stripe and funding Circle. Why was American Express not mentioned when both Hill and Todd were fully aware the company had an American Express card which was used exclusively for company Amazon purchases. Exhibit folder TO-02 shows both Hill and Todds knowledge of this account. So why was this added to my dismissal letter, and directors loan account (TO-09F line 186, 216, 234, 252 and 271) If information was missing, eg statements, why was I not asked for them? To my knowledge, and as evidenced by email TO-02C3, it was connected to Xero the accounting system.

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1. paragraph 3: The auditors state they relied upon representations made by two key individuals, these were Jason Hill and Jenny Todd
2. paragraph 5: The report was commissioned with a tight deadline. Why was this?
3. Paragraph 6: States that the auditors had no prior knowledge of the company, its operations or its activities. The only information the auditors received was from the company website and the having discussions with Jason Hill and Jenny Todd. The auditors were not shown our extensive social media channels, neither did they have our marketing strategies mapped out to them even though Hill was certainly well aware of how we marketed the company.

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1. A table is presented where the auditors specifically state ‘The main payees within the non-business related column are:
2. Funding circle, payments totalling £174,257 (This was a figure place onto my dismissal letter and accounted for as ‘Agriculture machinery’ TO-02B1 shows the funding circle statements these transaction are as follows:
3. PhotoMac minilabs £30,469: This was for film processing machinery. Jason Hill was very aware that we had this machinery as the company has deleted all information relating to it (TO-10A)  Hill was very aware that we had launched our own branded film TO-10A2. And that film processing, and sales was a key part of our marketing campaigns (Exhibit folder TO-03M is an extensive collection showing the film used for marketing the platform with impressive results. Furthermore, Hill was directly involved in negotiations with a company called ‘Silverprint’ That we intended to buy as a distributor for our film. Why were the auditors not informed of this information? Why has all film related content been deleted from the platforms blog and socials? Why is this film processing equipment on my directors loan account (TO-09F line 91/line 137) and classed as non business? The film equipment was all delivered to, and used in our Wimborne 1,500 square foot office which Hill visited, on average, 3 times a week.
4. Taylor Wessing £36,000: Funding circle was used to pay the companies lawyers 3 times. Why were the auditors not informed of this? And why were these figures added to my dismissal letter?
5. Wex Photo Video £10,498: This was a high end video camera, kept in the office, used in the office, even Jason Hill was filmed using this camera. Folder TO-03I shows this camera in the office. Why was this added to my directors loan account TO-09F line 85 and classed as ‘Non business’ Why were the auditors not informed of cameras use?
6. Rother Valley Optics £23,200: This was for the telescope that was key our 2024 marketing strategy. The telescope account alone has received more than a million views. It has been dormant since I was removed from the company and still receives 30,000 views a month. Exhibit folder TO-10B is a collection of evidence of the use of the telescope. All of it has been deleted by the directors of the company after my dismissal. Hill and Davenport were clearly aware of the use of the telescope for the companies marketing activities, so why were the auditors not informed of this? Why was evidence relating to it deleted? Why have these transactions been placed onto my directors loan account? TO-09F lines 176, 181, 184, 203, 208. Why were these placed onto my dismissal letter when it is very clearly for business use?
7. Blue Frontier IT £23,995: The companies IT providers at the time. Hill was very well aware that funding circle was used to pay them, why were the auditors not informed of this? Why was I dismissed for this spend?
8. Hunt forest group £57,218: This was part of a share sale as evidenced in folder TO-02F. Hill was clearly aware of this transaction as he was the one that transferred the funds into my account as evidenced by his ‘Edited’ slack message sent to my lawyer in February 2025 To-02F4. Where he is currently stating that the funds were to be transferred as a directors loan and paid back at IPO, with the company covering the tax implications. He has later claimed in my dismissal letter (TO-02L), and no less than 2 subsequent legal documents (TO-07A, TO-6A), both documents of which have been presented to courts as statements of truth, and to the police, that this transfer of funds was unknown to him and in fact was presented as an ‘unauthorised directors loan’ and was framed as embezzlement on my part. Communication with slack will confirm that that slack message was edited long after it was written inline with the directors record of tampering with evidence.
9. The next row is ‘Hunt Forest Group’ for the sum of £26,847. This was a small company tractor purchase which was made in June 2023. It was agreed that this was to be paid back initially via my salary (TO-02E3), and at a later date, in the proposed January IPO. At the time of my dismissal no IPO had happened, but this sum was not due to be paid back until 9 months after the companies year end. Why did Hill not inform the auditors of this? Why was I subsequently sacked for this transaction when both he and the accountant were clearly aware of the circumstances surrounding the purchase?
10. Mrs J Dewhurst £65,010 for the purchase of a 12 ton lorry: The lorry was bought for moving the huge telescope around as evidenced in deleted evidence folder TO-10B. TO-02D10 is a video published talking through exactly how we were going to use a horse lorry as a mobile astrophotography lab. TO-02D2 is a conversation between Merje Shaw (an employee at the time) and Jason Hill discussing branding of the lorry. TO-02D4 and D5 are the registration of the lorry in the companies name and TO-02D7 is a post in the local astronomy group detailing the telescope and the lorries use. Given all of this, and Hills clear knowledge of it and its purpose, why were the auditors not informed of this? Why was the telescope evidence deleted on the companies socials and not shown to the auditors as proof of its use for the company? Why was this lorry placed onto my directors loan account (TO-09F line 123, 124 and 125) Why was this lorry subsequently placed onto my dismissal letter? Especially as it was sold to me as part of the October 17th Share deal because Hill did not have the ability to understand how the telescope/lorry combination would market the platform and did not want the lorry on the books for the alleged IPO.
11. Rother Valley optics £20,954: Telescope purchase items, see point 10 above
12. Cross oaks farm/Mr Martin Broad : This is where the lorry and telescope were stored. Hill was very well aware of this as we clearly couldn’t store a 12 ton lorry and a 16 foot high telescope in the Wimborne office! The telescope was ultimately picked up from this address by the purchases so Hill clearly knew where it was stored. So why were the auditors not informed of this? Why are these transactions on my directors loan account (TO-09F lines 165, 190, 192, 220, 221, 238, 242, 256, 274) Exhibit folder TO-03J shows the telescope in the unit at Martin Broads (Solehill farm) and it’s first outing when we used it for the first, and last time to image the moon (TO-03J1)
13. Shore contracting: Is the electrician who did all the work in the company offices. It is not a ‘Road surfacing contractor’ Exhibit folder TO-03K extensively evidences this. Further evidence I was not aware of, neither involved in any queries concerning the audit.

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1. Paragraph 2. Todd and Hill state they have no idea what the funding circle loans are used for. Yet, the company has paid over £100,000 of invoices from multiple suppliers with them to this date. How can they not be aware of what they are used for?
2. Paragraph 9 contains another chart with Non business related columns.
3. Emmerdale Agriculture: This is a payment to sponsor a highly successful social channel with over a million views, reaching Gen Z, a core growth audience for the platform. TO-03D is a screenshot of Hubdoc, the companies invoice filing system alongside Knight Goodheads transaction line for this expense, it explicitly states no invoice is available. Yet there is an invoice there, in the system, that if shown to Knight Goodhead would have demonstrated the legitimate purpose of this payment. Exhibit folder TO-03 contains numerous examples of the company claiming no invoices are available, yet there are invoices shown in the companies invoice filing system.
4. Hunt Forest Group: See page 3 point 8
5. RH Davey Welding supplies: Yes, not a business expense, but an expense I filed with the accountant and informed her it would be paid off 8 weeks later. Why was this email (TO-03N) not shown to the auditors? Why did Todd not mention it to the auditors?
6. Rother Valley optics: See page 3 point 11
7. Boutique chalet: £6,825 for Hills skiing holiday. Hill claims this was paid back via payroll, yet the bank statements (TO-01C) do not reflect this. Why was Hill allowed to answer this query when I was not extended the same courtesy concerning transactions I made?

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• Paragraph 1 states that Appendix C lists almost £100k of transactions that have apparently not been paid for. How has the company not managed to account correctly for these payments? If we really had a missing £100,000 of invoices, why have no queries been raised over a 12 month period? Especially as Videscape is a VAT registered company and these invoices had their VAT reclaimed.
• Paragraph 3 states ‘The balances listed below relate to suppliers the company would not necessarily transact with in the normal course of its activities. Yet, as shown, Both Hill and Todd are very well aware of exactly how these companies work with Clickasnap
• PhotoMac minilabs: page 3 point 3
• Rother Valley optics: page 3 point 6
• Sentry: This is another perfect example demonstrating my lack of involvement or knowledge of the audit, and Hill and Todd’s ambition to put everything they could onto my directors loan account to justify their financial fraud claim: Sentry is software for monitoring and reporting bugs TO-03O shows the dashboard for this software, clearly showing the Videscape limited company name and website. This was added to my directors loan account TO-09F lines 178, 211, 231, 246, 267. Another, of the many, legitimate expenses I was sacked for from the company, and have had added to my directors loan account. Access to my slack account will show conversations between myself and Ben fox setting this up and feeding it into the slack API for the developers to action from.
• Sole Hill farm: See page 3 point 12
• Paragraph 7 states no transactions were added to Hills directors loan account, so how does he account for all the items he allegedly paid off via payroll? We would assume there is a gap between the transaction and the repayment via payroll, we would again assume that during this time period the item(s) in question would be placed onto his directors loan account.
• Paragraph 10: During the year end of 31 August 2023 it is stated that ‘But the number of transactions increased due to bank and invoice entries being identified as personal costs’ who was identifying these? What were these items and why were items being ‘identified’ as personal costs and being added to my directors loan account without my knowledge? Surely, if an item is questioned as a personal cost, the accountant would ask me what its purpose was for? This has not happened

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1. Paragraph 1 Why was the lorry treated as a personal transaction and placed onto my directors loan account without my knowledge? Especially as per page 3 point 10, Hill knew exactly what it’s purchase was for
2. Paragraph 2: Hill knew exactly what Trustadev was. As Clickasnp had grown we had had a lot of issues with accountants (ironic in this case) developers and companies and individuals who claimed to provide good services to startups. They all failed and TrustADev was to sit on the side of Clickasnap and effectively be the go to place to find companies and people who would do what they said they would do. Something, that for cash strapped startups is absolutely vital. It was a service that could revolutionise and dramatically reduce the failure rate of startups, TO-03P is the domain name purchased by the company long prior to the sale, and associate documents. It was Hill the suggested I sell it to the company, so I did. However, I did not take the funds as he wanted me too, as the last thing I wanted to do was potentially starve a  rapidly growing company of much needed cash, they were merely added to my directors loan account. Why were the auditors not shown this information? Why has this since been removed from my directors loan account? The invoice was raised and sent to Hubdoc, it would have been impossible for it to (1) be paid onto my directors loan account and (2) be accounted for in the companies accounts without both Hills and Todds knowledge and approval. Therefore, establishing implicit knowledge of the transaction.
3. Paragraph 3: ‘29th May 2023, Tom Withdrew £50,000 sending his account overdrawn’ Except I didn’t do this. May 2023 a board meeting was held that gave the entire company a pay rise, and gave the 3 directors bonuses. The bonuses the directors received were as follows: Eliza Davenprt £10k post tax, Jason Hill £25k post tax, Tom Oswald £50k post tax. Hill informed me that due to the pay rises and bonuses Hill could not pay me my bonus on payday. Which is fine by me, im the CEO, I get paid last, he then paid me the bonus 5 days later on the 29th and I didn’t think of it again. He clearly accounted for my bonus fraudulently as a loan, whilst simultaneously accounting for his and davenports bonuses correctly. It will be established upon inspection of the bank transaction details that (1) Hill made the payment into my account (2) there is no record of any conversation between him and myself, or the accountant and myself stating that I now had £50,000 on my directors loan account.
4. Paragraph 4 The lorry now suddenly becomes an asset of the company. Yet it subsequently was on my dismissal letter, and has been placed back onto my directors loan account TO-09F lines 123, 124 and 125. All this even though it was clearly an asset of the company and that Hill, Davenport and Todd are very well aware of it’s purpose!
5. Paragraph 5 ‘Between 1st September and 31 January 2024 There were further drawings totalling £68,000’ Why had £68,000 of transactions been added to my directors loan account without my knowledge? Again, who and why are these decisions being made behind my back by a supposedly qualified and registered accountant and the COO of the company? The company will not be able to provide any communications between Hill, Todd or myself about any of these huge debts. Paragraph 5 also states, that as at the 31St January 2024 my directors loan was £38,174 overdrawn. This contrasts to Hills claim in my dismissal letter that there was £90,000 of unauthorised directors loans on my account as of the 13Th February 2024.
6. Paragraph 6 states that my directors loan account is severely unpredictable and has a severe case of ‘management override’ Yet, I have no knowledge of any of these transactions. Until I was unlawfully removed from the company, to my knowledge, my directors loan account was substantially in credit as apart from RH Davey, I had made no transactions onto it at all as all my spending, was legitimate business purposes as has been demonstrated with every query thus far

Page 7 Bounce back loan

1. In August 2019 I was hospitalised for several months due to the development of a chronic, incurable illness called ‘Ulcerative colitis’ This had been partially brought on by the stress of growing the company. This disease has multiple horrible physical symptoms which I won’t go in to detail about but can easily be researched online.
2. Evidence of this can be found here https://www.abalancedbelly.co.uk/growing-a-multi-million-pound-business-with-ibd/ and here https://www.ibdrelief.com/ibd-stories/business-owners/tom-oswald
3. I was placed onto a very large quantity of drugs, one of which, Azathioprine, resulted in liver failure. I was hospitalized again November/December 2019 and placed on a new set of drugs, two of which I am still on. One I take daily, and one I have to go to Poole hospital every 6 weeks to have a drug infusion that keeps me stable. If I do not have that infusion I will rapidly relapse and be hospitalised
4. March 2020 Covid struck
5. When I took out the bounce back loan, I will be the first to admit I was not in the clearest of mindsets, especially given the previous few months, and the drugs, and the toll developing such a life changing disease will have on anyone’s mental and physical wellbeing.
6. To my knowledge, and my memory is hazey of the time, but I simply added up the last 12 months bank statements and used that as the figure to work off of. We had no accountants, I was a sole director and we were in the middle of lockdown. It is absolutely possible I made an error given the extenuating circumstances at the time. However, I can equivocally state that the loan was not claimed in any fraudulent manner, or with any fraudulent intent
7. The loan was taken out because our advertising revenues had collapsed by 90% (Exhibit TO-03Q1 which is a youtube video which has since been deleted by the current directors: Exhibit TO-03Q3) Exhibit T0-03Q2 shows the worldwide collapse in ad revenue and how it was severely affecting businesses that relied upon it. ClickAsnap used ad revenue to pay the users for their image views at the time. The video was made to reassure our users that we would solve the problems Covid created.
8. Use of the loan: The auditors mention two payments made totalling £10,000 consisting of 2 payments of £6,000 for software  and £4,000, to my credit card.. Apart from a small funding round in 2014-16 totalling approximately £80k, the company was entirely funded by me. The western world was in a zero interest rate environment so this is what I did: I worked a well paid full time job, I lived in a bedsit so my outgoings were low, I had circa 6 credit cards and an excellent credit rating. I would receive an offer from one of my credit cards offering £X at 0% interest for periods of typically 12 months. I would take all that money off the card, pay it into the company then use my salary to pay the card down over the following 12 months, on occasion I would have particularly high company expenses and by the time the interest free period had expired the card was not paid off, so I would take funds from the company and pay the card off. Shortly after that I would then receive another 0% 12 month offer, I would take the funds off the card and inject the back into the company. I did this with circa 6 credit cards and also had multiple loans at the same time. I did this up until mid 2021 when the company took off. So when the bounce back loan came in, I was simply repeating the cycle I had been doing for many years to get the company to where it is. With access to the company bank statements I can highlight the credit card and loan payments to the company. Something the auditors would have established had they spoken to me.
9. Furthermore, at the time I had a circa £100k in credit directors loan which is interesting to see ‘No evidence has been seen to support that £4,000 was incurred by Tom on the companies behalf’ as stated by Hill and Todd, neither of whom were employed by the company at the time. Again, if the auditors had spoken to me, the outcome, radically different.
10. Review of specific transactions involving Jason Hill and Eliza Davenport. A list of transactions is present, including Jason Hills outboard motor (GAM Southampton) which apparently has been paid off by Hill but, interestingly, an item that subsequently appears on my directors loan account (TO-09F line 92)

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1. Paragraph 1:‘The items highlighted in yellow have been vouched with supporting paperwork and agreed as business expenses’
2. Paragraph 2:‘The items in bold have been agreed as personal expenses and repaid as deductions in Jasons payslips’
3. Jason Hill and Eliza Davenport were clearly able to receive and answer queries for the purpose of this audit. Why was I not extended the same courtesy? Was the audit for the purpose of an IPO? Or was it actually for the purposes of fabricating a believable paper trail to remove me from the company?

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• Paragraph 2 lists the following and states ‘All of which DO NOT ALIGN to the current business activities of the company:
• A lorry: Exhibit pack TO-02D
• A tractor: Exhibit pack TO-02E
• TrustAdev: Exhibit pack TO-03P
• A Telescope: TO-02D and TO-10B
• Gun Training : Youtube promotional video: ‘Photographing a bullet at 300,000 frames per second’ Exhibit TO-10C (evidence deleted from our company Youtube channel by Hill/Davenport. Davenport is even in the video TO-10C2. This video is a copy I placed onto another channel. TO-10C1 shows it on the companies Youtube channel, inspection of that channel will now show the video is no longer there.) The auditors were clearly not shown this video, or any of our marketing channels.
• HGV Training : Need an HGV licence to drive a 12 ton lorry. That was so I could drive it as I was the only one with the competence to use such a complex piece of equipment such as the telescope
• Rent for premises: As pointed out, the lorry and telescope could not be kept in the office
• Agricultural tools: Page 3 point 8
• Road Surfacing: Actually the companies electrician
• As evidenced, every item that has been listed, does align with the business activities, and all the individuals involved in the audit knew this.
• The audit concludes on page 10: ‘We recommend further documentation is obtained to support the transactions with the non business related suppliers to gain conclusive evidence’  The company did not carry this action out.

Finally , there is a list of transactions totaling £419,934, including Hills Boutique chalet skiing holiday. This is the exact sum placed onto my dismissal letter (TO-02L paragraph 3) that was used to remove me from the company. Again, claiming, and I quote:

 ‘However, the work carried out by the accountants thus far shows that from 1 September 2022 to 31 January 2024 you have made and benefited from payments totalling approximately £420,000 from the Company’s bank accounts, which are wholly unconnected with the business of the Company, including (without limitation):’

The above is then listed.

Notes:

• There is a running theme among the transaction tables where a column is listed as ‘Insufficient evidence’. These columns total up at circa £200,000+. All of these items were dumped onto my directors loan, without consultation with myself, after my dismissal. The directors loan document in question is TO-09F and some of the items in question include:
• Line 119 Delonghi coffee machine that is in the office
• Line 121 Salamander cookshop, where the office cutlery was bought
• Line 166 Lantana Shoreditch, where I met Merje Shaw for our team meetings
• Line 172 Octopus energy, the offices gas and electricity supplier (Exhibit TO-03R), listed as ‘Toms Mothers House’ A house that does not have gas
• Line 212 NFU Mutual, a transaction specifically identified by Jenny Todd in email TO-02F1. An email Hill was CC’d in. Clearly identifying this as part of the share sale agreement
• Line 214 Sophie Thornes salary. Sophie Thorne was the companies first employee and ran the companies socials for some 3 or 4 years and was unlawfully sacked from the company the same day I was and accused of theft from the company.
• Line 249 company directors personal guarantee insurance
• Line 262 Investec asset finance, company insurance taken out by Hill
• The list extends to hundreds of entries, none corroborated with myself, and all just transferred onto my directors loan because Hill and Todd needed it there to indebt me.
• TO-02D6 is a text conversation between myself and Merje Shaw where she states ‘It is a bit disingenuous to claim that he (Hill’ wasn’t aware of this (the dismissal letter claims’ when he frequently brought several of these up in conversation’

In conclusion, the companies lawyers, auditors, shareholders and the police were intentionally misled by Jason Hill, Jenny Todd and Eliza Davenport to remove me from the company by fabricating documentation that appeared to show that I had stolen many hundreds of thousands of pounds from the company. The company accounts, and any associated alleged loans, debts, credits or transactions cannot be relied upon to form any judgements until a true independent audit is done of the company accounts, involving all the company directors, and will all available access to evidence to hand.

If you’re interested in reading the entire evidence behind how these directors carried out their actions then you can download our evidence pack here https://we.tl/t-WkJgGQSi5W