HBOS scam paid for ‘foreign travel and high class escorts’

  A senior HBOS banker helped orchestrate a £245million loan scam which saw cash splashed on ‘luxurious foreign travel and sexual encounters with high class escorts’, a court heard. Lynden Scourfield, 54, was allegedly involved in a ‘corrupt relationship’ with consultant David Mills, 60, which saw companies plunge into deep debt, between 2003 and 2007 Scourfield is not on trial but Mills and five others are in the dock at Southwark crown court today (mon) accused of being involved in…