van Hoogstraten,
Nicholas |
Born
25 February
1945 (Shoreham, East Sussex, England) |
Property
tycoon, absolute crook and once
Britain's youngest millionaire. Constantly employing
less-than-legal
"business practices", on one occasion he was convicted of
ordering a
grenade attack on a business associate, and was subsequently
described
as a "self-styled emissary of Beelzebub" by a judge. In 1999
business
rival Mohammed Raja sued him for fraud, so Mr van
Hoogstraten (he
invented the "van" bit, incidentally) paid two henchmen to
"teach Mr
Raja a lesson". This lesson involved shooting Mr Raja in the
face and
stabbing him, resulting in his death. After spending one
year of a
ten-year sentence for manslaughter, the devil's landlord got
out on a
technicality in December 2003 and is probably now a marked
man. Just in
case you needed any further evidence of his despicable
nature, he has
described Robert
Mugabe
(but not his swingtime
band)
as "100% decent and incorruptible". |
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