A wealthy accountant is now facing a jail sentence

A wealthy accountant is now facing a jail sentence for a
‘bizarre’ and almost lethal attack on his brother in law.

High flying pnds stlng 6,000-a-week bank executive Mr Keah
Keat Foo, 34, was smashed over the head with a hammer,
handcuffed and made to sign away his fortune in a bogus will.

Mr Foo was so certain Derek Felstead, 48, was going to
murder him that he hurled himself through a closed window in a
desperate bid to escape, suffering terrible injuries.

Felstead admitted false imprisonment but denied aggravated
burglary with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and wounding
Mr Foo with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm.

He claimed Mr Foo, his estranged wife’s brother, had made
sinister threats to his two teenage children.

But an Old Bailey jury rejected his claims and convicted him
of both contested charges, leaving the real reason for the
savage attack a mystery.

Sentence on Felstead, an accountant worth pnds stlng 150,000
and living in Iverna Place, Kensington, was adjourned until
tomorrow Weds.

The jury was told Felstead had snuck into Mr Foo’s home in
Ashburn Place, South Kensington, in the early hours of June 23
this year, armed with an imitation gun and a hammer.

Mr Foo was beaten into submission with the hammer then forced
to sign a will which signed away his fortune, estimated at pnds
stlng 500,000, to his sister.

It was as Felstead inspected the bogus will that his hostage
made his desperate leap for freedom through the ground floor
window, the court heard.

He suffered terrible injuries through the panes of glass and
landing on the concrete of the basement below.

Felstead was arrested at the flat by police soon after.

He did not react as the jury found him guilty of aggravated
burglary and wounding with intent.

Mr Stuart Trimmer, defending, described Felstead as a law-
abiding upright accountant who committed the ‘bizarre’ crime
when under immense pressure of his divorce.

‘He believed he was being poisoned and there were things far
more sinister going on than there were.

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