Criminal tycoon’s son in row over extension at £1m Chelsea flat after claim firm hired ‘ARMED THUGS’ to burgle property | BCX10R1 | 2024-02-17 06:08:01
Criminal tycoon's son in row over extension at £1m Chelsea flat after claim firm hired 'ARMED THUGS' to burgle property | BCX10R1 | 2024-02-17 06:08:01
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A CRIMINAL tycoon's son is at the centre of a nasty row over claims his family company employed "armed thugs" to "burgle" a £1million Chelsea flat.
Nicholas Van Hoogstraten's son is embroiled in a bitter dispute over a loft extension on the posh London pad, in Finborough Road.
London's High Court has heard the Van Hoogstraten household company used "armed thugs" to trespass onto Maria El Massouri's property.
The battle has arisen because of the Van Hoogstraten family firm Omani Estates Restricted – owned by eldest son Max Hamilton – claiming they personal Mrs Massouri's loft conversion.
Mrs Massouri alleged Omani Estates Ltd have "repeatedly arranged for brokers to burgle her flat, eradicating its front door and later for armed thugs to smash security cameras from its partitions", the courtroom heard.
The resident has now sued the Van Hoogstraten company for damages, and a affirmation she owns the loft room by way of hostile possession – extra commonly generally known as "squatter's rights".
Omani Estates Ltd denied all wrongdoing and claimed Mrs Massouri is the "trespasser" and they're counterclaiming for proof they personal the area.
Whereas they admit to the scaffolding, removing a door and erecting a picket barrier throughout the steps – they deny utilizing "thugs" to break in.
FAMILY RUN BUSINESS
Omani Estates Ltd is run by four of Nicholas Adolf von Hessen's youngsters.
Britannia Hamilton, 33, Richmond Hamilton, 33, Alexander Hamilton, 36, and oldest son Max Hamilton, 38.
Their father was an infamous property tycoon who amassed a internet value of round £800million within the early 2000s.
He turned infamous for his poor remedy of tenants and has been locked up behind bars prior to now.
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> In his earlier dealings with the regulation, a decide as soon as described Nicholas as a "self-imagined devil" who views himself as "an emissary of Beelzebub".
<!--googleoff: all--> <blockquote class="article__quote"> </blockquote> <!--googleon: all--> The legal was caged in 2002 for manslaughter after his former business associate Mohammed Raja was shot and stabbed to demise on his doorstep in 1999.
Nevertheless, the Courtroom of Attraction overturned the conviction a yr later and he walked free.
Mr Raja's family then sued in civil courtroom and von Hessen was pressured to pay them £6million.
He also served time for paying a gang to throw a grenade into the Brighton home of Rabbi Bernard Braunstein because his son owed him money.
EXTENSION ROW
The extension was truly completed in 2002 when Mrs Massouri was granted planning permission, the courtroom heard.
</div> </div> Mrs Massouri and her late husband later discovered there could also be one other lease proprietor on the area they constructed into.
Nevertheless, when the couple tried to make contact, they thought the mystery proprietor "might not exist" because it was unattainable to track anyone down, argued Mrs Massouri's lawyer Hugh Jackson.
This led the home-owner to apply for squatter's rights over the extension in 2020.
Omani Estates Ltd then made a "grievance" for the primary time in 18 years and accused Mrs Massouri of trespassing.
They declare the company purchased the lease in 1996.
<!--googleoff: all--> <blockquote class="article__quote"> </blockquote> <!--googleon: all--> Mr Jackson advised the courtroom: "It turned vital for Ms Massouri to hunt, ex parte, an injunction to restrain Omani Estates Ltd after the corporate repeatedly organized for agents to burgle her flat, removing its entrance door and later for armed thugs to smash security cameras from its partitions.
"Later nonetheless, the defendant had organized for contractors to erect scaffolding to the rear of the building on prime of the rear extension forming part of the garden flat, and to enter the mansard accommodation, breaking the balusters within the stairs to the mansard and installing a horizontal partition on blocks, separating the mansard from the half originally leased to the claimant and her late husband."
COUNTERCLAIM
Mrs Massouri is preventing for an order stating she owns the loft area.
However Max Hamilton informed the decide that Mrs Massouri and her late husband "don't own" the loft area they constructed their extension into.
But, including that "as the eldest son" he's "senior" within the operating of the corporate, he denied that anyone on behalf of it instructed anyone to enter or "burgle" Ms Massouri's property.
Mr Jackson requested Mr Hamilton how workmen had not trespassed in an effort to install the picket "horizontal partition with blocks supporting it on the stairs".
"They have been instructed not to enter Ms Massouri's property," Mr Hamilton replied.
<!--googleoff: all--> <blockquote class="article__quote"> </blockquote> <!--googleon: all--> Mr Jackson informed he courtroom how Mr Hamilton's father had been recognized to drive out tenants by eradicating their stairs.
The lawyer also spoke of Von Hessen's alleged derogatory feedback in the direction of tenants – who he referred to as "scumbags".
He also introduced a letter to the courtroom written by Omani Estates Ltd co-director Alexander through which Mrs Massouri was referred to as "a fraudster".
When requested if he agreed, Mr Hamilton stated: "The truth that she has prolonged previous the demise, should you don't personal one thing, would you construct into an space that was not a part of your lease?"
'UNLAWFUL'
Omani Estates Ltd nonetheless argue Mrs Massouri's extension is "unlawful" and she or he has "no legal estate or interest in the roof space".
The corporate added it was essential to remove her door because she was a trespasser.
In a press release they claim: "The door was removed from its hinges by third get together contractors, however the door was not broken or faraway from the property.
"It's admitted that the partition was erected by the defendant's third social gathering contractors.
"The scaffolding was erected only upon areas included inside the defendant's demise.
"The third get together contractors have been expressly instructed not to enter the premises demised by the second flooring flat lease.
"To the extent that it's alleged, it's denied that the defendant and/or its brokers attended the property and/or instructed any third celebration to do so on their behalf.
"The defendant has a proper to possession of the extension in so far as it is located in the roof space.
"The claimant occupies the trespass land with out the defendant's licence or consent."
Decide Caddick is about to deliver his verdict at a later date.
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