‘Kidnap bid’ after failed business deal

Two entrepreneurs plotted to kidnap an investment guru using two bogus police officers after a £1.6m business deal fell through, a court heard. Bernadette Degrassee, 42, and Thomas O’Donovan, 36, allegedly arranged for 49 year-old David Cumberbatch to be ‘arrested’ for fraud after a meeting in London’s West End. Mr Cumberbatch, the director of First Global Intermediaries, was grabbed by two men wearing radios clipped to their jackets as he left an office in exclusive St James’ Square, jurors were…