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Posted by allan on 26 February 2009 - 9:28pm.
help i've been trying to remember a charactor from late 70's think his name was stratton/ hook stratton something like that. think he was a bit of a rogue think he'ed been to prison there was tv programme made about a big house he was having built think it was bigest new build at time?
think he dealt rare stamps had a lot of rental property around london?
help it's driving me mad
thanks allan
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It was somthing like..
..Nicholas Van Strooten, or something. He was a property developer and landlord, and also a bit of a gangster. I think he's dead now.
Nicholas van Hoogstraten
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_van_Hoogstraten
Nicholas van Hoogstraten?
I think this is the guy you're thinking of.
Nice chap, by all accounts :-(
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3301361.stm
I liked the title
"self styled emissary of Beelzebub" Although reading on I think The Earl of Hell would call him sir!
You Mean Nicholas Van Whatshisface
Listen to Sheriff Fatman by Carter for the the full story!
Not a nice man
Was basically a slum landlord in Brighton and employed some of the area's more notorious "Chaps" to collect rent and for protection.
Famous for throwing a hand grenade into a Synagogue and removing the staircase from an old lady's first floor flat.
Only saw him once and he wasn't very tall.Not known for his sense of Humour.
He lived next door to my Dentist. All villans together eh !
Not a nice man (slight return)
In 2002 he was sentenced to 10 years for the manslaughter of a business rival. The verdict was overturned on appeal but in 2005 he was ordered to pay the victim's family £6 million in a civil case
He also does a lot of business with the Zimbabwe government.