Fugitive trader’s wife left to battle for family home

A fugitive trader who collected at least £1.5m from a Swiss bank account has left his wife fighting a court battle for her family home. Richard Baldwin, 53, fled the UK, abandoning his family, during his money laundering trial in 2017. Based in Marylebone as a watch seller, Baldwin siphoned off the profits of a complex insider trading scheme. Baldwin was convicted of laundering £1.5m in profits from trading shares in Scottish & Newcastle and was jailed to five years…