Known for his work on Tomb Raider, Watch Dogs or Dead Island 2, the British composer Peter Connelly has just received a heavy prison sentence.
We are not going to lie, the subject of this article was clearly not part of our bingo. Even though the next opus of Tomb Raider Slearly dear to reveal itself, the franchise has not failed to be talked about in recent months. In particular in question: the release of Tomb Raider 4-6 Remasteredwhich allowed players to plunge back into a modernized version of the last three adventures of Lara Croft at Core Design. And this is where the shock arrives, since one of the key personalities of these games was today imprisoned.
One of the composers of Tomb Raider imprisoned
Peter Connelly, composer emeritus of Tomb Raider music: the final revelation, in the footsteps of Lara Croft and the angel of darkness, has just been imprisoned by the British government for credit fraud. According to information revealed by the British insolvency service, the creator has managed to obtain two loans for his professional activities in 2020, even though the government had prohibited the cumulative at a time when the Pandemic of Covid-19 was raging.
This exceptional situation, fraudulently bypassed by Connelly, would have allowed the composer to obtain a first loan of £ 22,000 from the government, then a second loan of £ 37,500 the following month from a bank. Worse still, it appears that Connelly would have “Deliberately inflated” The results of his business to be able to obtain even more money. He would then have declared having achieved a turnover of £ 150,000 in 2019, when it was actually at only £ 58,000.
Questioned in this regard by the competent authorities, Connelly would have revealed that this money was initially intended to finance a project “Important and potentially very lucrative” linked to the reinvention of music from the Tomb Raider soundtrack. The project in question, however, would have finally fallen into the water because of the pandemic, leaving the composer in a delicate situation. Result: in August 2021, Connelly’s company was placed in compulsory liquidation, which led us to the events reported today.
A shock for Lara Croft fans
“Peter Connelly openly flouted the rules of the British loan program, designed to support small and medium -sized enterprises during the pandemic” In particular said David Snasdell, chief investigator of the insolvency. This is why the composer of Tomb Raider was awarded a sentence of sixteen months in prison by the Durham court, in addition to gaping six years of ban on exercising his activity as a business manager. And as much to say that for the fans of Tomb Raider, it is a sacred shock.
It must be said that Connelly is particularly appreciated by the community. On the one hand for everything he could bring to the franchise through his musical talents, but also on the other hand for his proximity to fans. Very active on social networks, the composer recently followed the traces of Nathan McCree, composer of the first three opus in the series, by proposing a reorchestration of his music in a special album called Tomb Raider: The Dark Angel Symphony in 2019.
In addition to her work on Tomb Raider’s soundtrack, Connelly was also known for having participated in the composition and the game design of games as Watch Dogs, The Crew et South Park: the Annale of Destiny at Ubisoft, or even more recently Dead Island 2 At Dambuster Studios. His latest known work, however, will remain his small contribution to the two remasters de Tomb Raiderfor which he notably helped provide certain audio files.
Source : GOV.UK
