MILLIONARE LANDLORD NICHOLAS VAN-HOOGSTRATEN CURRE

MILLIONARE LANDLORD NICHOLAS VAN-HOOGSTRATEN CURRENTLY
ON TRIAL ACCUSED OF MAKING LIFE ‘A MISERY’ FOR HIS TENANTS TODAY
(THURS) LAUNCHED A SCATHING ATTACK ON THEM CLAIMING THEY WERE

OPERATING A SUB-LETTING RACKET IN HIS PROPERTIES.

THE 41 YEAR OLD TYCOON IS ALLEGED TO HAVE SUBJECTED THE
TENANTS TO EIGHT MONTHS OF INTIMIDATION IN ORDER TO DRIVE THEM
FROM THEIR HOMES WHICH HE THEN PLANNED TO SELL, MR ANDREW
COLLINS, PROSECUTING TOLD A COURT.

HOOGSTRATEN DENIES CUTTING OFF WATER AND HEATING
SUPPLIES REMOVING FURNITURE AND BREAKING DOWN THE DOOR OF ONE
MAN’S FLAT.

CROSS EXAMINING PROSECUTION WITNESS MISS HILARY WAGON,
HOOGSTRATEN, WHO IS DEFENDING HIMSELF, ASKED: ‘WOULD IT SURPRISE
YOU TO LEARN THAT THE KEY TO FLAT NUMBER SEVEN WAS BEING SOLD TO
THE GAY COMMUNITY AT NOTTING HILL UNDERGROUND STATION?’
MISS WAGON DENIED ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THE ALLEGATION.

HOOGSTRATEN CONTINUED HIS ATTACK CLAIMING THAT A SERIES
OF ‘UNAUTHORISED PERSONS’ HAD MOVED INTO FLATS IN THE HOUSE AND
SEVERAL OCCUPIERS HAD BROKEN LEASE AGREEMENTS.

MISS WAGON DENIED ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THE ALLEGATIONS AND
CLAIMED THAT HOOGSTRATEN HIMSELF HAD BROKEN THE LEASE AGREEMENT
BY TURNING DOWN THE WATER AND HEATING SUPPLIES TO A MINIMUM AT
HER HOME IN HOLLAND PARK, NOTTING HILL.

SHE TOLD THE JURY AT INNER LONDON CROWN COURT THAT THE
ORIGINAL OOCUPANT OF FLAT SEVEN HAD FLED FROM HER HOME BECAUSE
SHE WAS FRIGHTENED OF HOOGSTRATEN.

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MISS WAGON ALSO CLAIMED THAT SHE HAD PERSONALLY
TELEPHONED THE MANAGEMENT AGENTS FOR THE HOUSE, ROBERT GATES LTD
AFTER SERVICES HAD BEEN CUT AND AFTER ASKING TO SPEAK TO ‘MR
GATES’ SHE WAS PUT THROUGH TO HOOGSTRATEN HIMSELF.

HOOGSTRATEN DENIED POSING AS GATES SAYING ‘THERE IS NO
SUCH PERSON AS ROBERT GATES.

ROBERT GATES IS MERELY THE NAME OF
THE AGENTS AND YOU KNEW THAT AT A VERY EARLY STAGE.

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HE DENIES HAVING ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THE DAY TO DAY RUNNING
OF THE PROPERTIES OR KNOWING OF ANY HARASSMENT OF TENANTS.

HOOGSTRATEN OF THE HIGH CROSS ESTATE, FRAMFIELD, EAST
SUSSEX DENIES NINE COUNTS OF HARASSMENT OF RESIDENTIAL
OCCUPIERS BETWEEN JULY 1984 AND SEPTEMBER 1985 RELATING TO THREE
PROPERTIES IN NORLAND SQUARE AND HOLLAND PARK, NOTTING HILL AND
REDCLIFFE GARDENS, WEST BROMPTON.

THE TRIAL CONTINUES TOMORROW (FRI).

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