‘Britain’s worst landlord’ leaves £41m mega-mansion to rot | 8065WR9 | 2024-02-27 11:08:01
'Britain's worst landlord' leaves £41m mega-mansion to rot | 8065WR9 | 2024-02-27 11:08:01
A millionaire has come underneath hearth for leaving his large mansion to rot and crumble.&
Nicholas van Hoogstraten, a controversial British businessman who's served time in jail and a former affiliate of late Zimbabwean tyrant Robert Mugabe, has been building Hamilton Palace in Uckfield since 1985.
Nevertheless, locals have now referred to as on the council to take action over the ruinous condition during which the millionaire, who's reported to be dwelling at one other giant property in Zimbabwe, has left the estate.
Pictures show the Sussex property in a dilapidated state, surrounded by rusted scaffolding and building supplies left dumped and lying round on the bottom.&
Residents of the world also declare it's develop into a magnet for drug-use and anti-social behaviour.
One individual informed MailOnline: 'The place is an eyesore and a wreck and it has blighted this area for as long as I can keep in mind.&
'However now it has started attracting youths who break into the property to eat medicine and alcohol.
'The constructing appears highly harmful and I feel it's solely a matter of time before somebody is injured or worse on the estate.'
Another added: 'The location isn't safe. Fencing is all the time being ripped down and youths get onto the land and head to the home.
'In the course of the hotter months there are all the time youths hanging around with bottles of cider and beer smoking marijuana. The place has develop into a magnet for teenagers with nothing higher to do.'
She also stated: 'It's high time the native authority did some checks on the property to determine its security and safety because youths who get in there could possibly be killed.'
Others described the location as 'the most important slum in Britain –& which is ironic given that's how Hoogstraten began out.'
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Hoogstraten made his identify in property and loansharking before at the age of 22 he was convicted of paying for a gang to lob a grenade into the house of a Brighton rabbi over an unpaid debt.&
In 2002, he was sentenced to 10 years in jail for the manslaughter of a enterprise rival. The decision was overturned on attraction and he was released from prison, with a civil case in 2005 seeing him pay out £6 million to the deceased man's family.
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