Background:
The house belonged to a Chinese entrepreneur who owned successful IT companies in the UK and abroad. In 2017 he was jailed for 18 months for tax evasion and other offences, and the court froze £24.7 million of his assets to reclaim what he owed. During this time his wife fled to Singapore to send £8 million to a bank account in Taiwan.
I am unsure as to where the couple are now but it sounds like they will not be returning to the UK.
The visit:
The property is on a busy street with lots of nosey neighbours, so we parked in a supermarket car park and walked round the back of the property where it was quieter. When entering the gardens we were very overwhelmed by it’s beauty but on the lookout for alarms, cameras etc. The garden is full of tropical plants and the oriental style pond still has Koi in it.
Access was a pain in the arse, but well worth it. The building is sound, floors in tact, it’s rare that you get places where it looks like the owners upped and left immediately but this is one of them. Endless photos, clothes, art works, you can really feel the history of what happened and imagine the lavish lifestyles these people had. If he had paid the tax man he could still be living like that..
This was hands down one of the most enchanting places I’ve been to.
The house belonged to a Chinese entrepreneur who owned successful IT companies in the UK and abroad. In 2017 he was jailed for 18 months for tax evasion and other offences, and the court froze £24.7 million of his assets to reclaim what he owed. During this time his wife fled to Singapore to send £8 million to a bank account in Taiwan.
I am unsure as to where the couple are now but it sounds like they will not be returning to the UK.
The visit:
The property is on a busy street with lots of nosey neighbours, so we parked in a supermarket car park and walked round the back of the property where it was quieter. When entering the gardens we were very overwhelmed by it’s beauty but on the lookout for alarms, cameras etc. The garden is full of tropical plants and the oriental style pond still has Koi in it.
Access was a pain in the arse, but well worth it. The building is sound, floors in tact, it’s rare that you get places where it looks like the owners upped and left immediately but this is one of them. Endless photos, clothes, art works, you can really feel the history of what happened and imagine the lavish lifestyles these people had. If he had paid the tax man he could still be living like that..
This was hands down one of the most enchanting places I’ve been to.
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: Someone put these thing up for auction, probably bailiffs. But if family, this will be a great loss to them.
