The bit I can't get my head around was that they owed so much money, yet owned twelve houses! So why didn't they sell houses to pay their debts, instead of him going through with his shady pretend death?
I though that too and when the police searched the house they didn’t spot the secret door?The bit I can't get my head around was that they owed so much money, yet owned twelve houses! So why didn't they sell houses to pay their debts, instead of him going through with his shady pretend death?
re the houses/debt this was the era when banks were throwing money at people to take on mortgages for properties that weren't worth it - the Northern Rock crisis etc that started it all unravelling hadn't happened yet. Also I think they had one big loan across all the properties, or one loan was leveraged against another, either way they couldn't just extract one property and sell it.I though that too and when the police searched the house they didn’t spot the secret door?
I wonder how long it would have taken for the whole story to unravel without the photo? Do we think the police were on to them already?