Cash for power: Property tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten, who is bankrolling Grace Mugabe, at the High Court in 2005 as part of a civil case brought against him by the family of business rival ...

A £40million mansion in Sussex once said to be the most expensive private house built in Britain for a century remains unfinished – 40 years after work first started. Hamilton Palace ...

Nicholas van Hoogstraten began construction of Hamilton Palace in 1985 but work appears to have now ceased; He has hit back at neighbours' complaints and ruled out suggestions the building could ...

Nicholas van Hoogstraten has never admitted sending his henchmen to intimidate his business rival, Mohammed Raja. In a pre-trial hearing last week Mr Justice Stephen Mitchell ruled that even if ...

Nicholas van Hoogstraten has admitted that he is no longer sorry that his business rival was murdered. Mr van Hoogstraten, 58, was freed last month after serving 12 months of a 10-year sentence ...

Mr Van Hoogstraten, originally from Uckfield in East Sussex, is said to have had about 35,000 US dollars (£17,700), small amounts of other foreign currencies and 20 billion Zimbabwe dollars in ...

Property mogul Mr van Hoogstraten, who hailed from humble beginnings in West Sussex in 1945, dropped out of school at 17 ...

The huge home is owned by multi-millionaire Nicholas van Hoogstraten who said it was built to last 2,000 years. But its decaying exterior shows it may never be finished in the first place.

Nicholas Van Hoogstraten arranged the killing of rival Mohammed Raja, who was stabbed five times before being shot in the head in 1999 Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by ...

The controversial property tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten has insisted he is innocent of currency and pornography accusations in Zimbabwe, where he spent the day in police custody. Nicholas ...

Nicholas van Hoogstraten (Image: DAILY MIRROR) Notorious slum landlord Nicholas Van Hoogstraten has not paid a penny of the £1.5million he owes the family of a businessman whose murder he arranged.