ONE of Worcester Warriors' former owners will have his business activities referred to the Serious Fraud Office following a DCMS meeting.

Julian Knight, member of parliament for Solihull and chairman of the DCMS Select Committee, said he was going to be writing to the Serious Fraud Office about former co-owner Colin Coldring's activities.

It came at the conclusion of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) meeting held today.

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He said: “I am going to write to the serious fraud office, concerning Mr Goldring’s activities over the SRA and his declaration given to the RFU.

“I will also write to John Campion, who is the West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner on that particular issue.

“When it comes to game more generally we will be issuing a special report on lessons from today, that will probably focus on areas such as what if it wasn’t so tragic it would be laughable, to fit a proper person test, the lack of corrective care and a failure of will I think this committee could agree on that.

“And also, after what we have seen in cricket as well, the huge power imbalance between the players union and the administrators as well has been exposed today.

“And also, the lack of cooperation and communication, all in all, it adds up to a failure on an epic scale of the game which is why you have got two that have gone under.”

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The parliamentary committee was told Worcester will not survive under any ownership without retaining its P share.

The Sixways club was relegated from the Gallagher Premiership on October 6 after the partial liquidation of their holding company WRFC Players Ltd a day earlier, owing to unpaid tax in the region of £6million being pursued by HM Revenue and Customs.

While a consortium led by former Worcester chief executive Jim O’Toole was chosen last month as the preferred bidder to rescue the club by administrator Begbies Traynor, the debate over what happens with their P share continues.

Worcester News has attempted to contact Mr Goldring via Worcester Warriors.