Toby Whittaker, who ran the controversial Dylan Harvey property investment company that lost millions of pounds of other people's money, including cash belonging to a few famous names (most famously footballers Steven Gerrard and Ryan Giggs), was beaten up in front of his family and robbed at knifepoint last week by six masked men. It's a complicated story. Police are said to be investigating the possibility that the robbers may be connected to the hundreds of furious investors, some of whom are chasing Whittaker in the courts. However, they're also investigating Whittaker himself for an alleged insurance fraud following another, earlier, burglary at his house. An ugly business in so many ways. More here.

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