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 ...

Branded Nicholas van Hoogstraten, 62, is no stranger to controversy and his list of previous convictions includes ordering a grenade attack on the home of a business associate, a Jewish clergyman who ...

Van Hoogstraten decided to build in the mid-1980s, in the pretty woodland landscape near Uckfield, East Sussex. He owned huge swathes of the county and claimed to be mostly mortgage free.

Van Hoogstraten decided to build in the mid-1980s, in the pretty woodland landscape near Uckfield, East Sussex. He owned huge swathes of the county and claimed to be mostly mortgage free.

Business tycoon and multi-millionaire Nicholas Van Hoogstraten hailed from a working-class background in Sussex before he became a millionaire aged just 22. At one stage, he was reported to be worth ...

Construction on the sprawling estate began in 1985, commissioned by controversial businessman Nicholas Van Hoogstraten. Once a millionaire by the age of 22, Van Hoogstraten amassed a vast fortune ...

It was originally built as a home for the art collection of property tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten, one of the country's wealthiest people. It has been left to rot in a state of disrepair since ...

It was originally built as a home for the art collection of property tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten, one of the country's wealthiest people. It has been left to rot in a state of disrepair since ...

The mansion, which is set amidst green trees and woodland near the town of Uckfield in East Sussex, is the vision of businessman Nicholas Van Hoogstraten, who has made headlines in newspapers and ...

But being left to decay since construction stopped in 1985, the mansion now wastes away in the countryside and left abandoned. The owner, Nicholas van Hoogstraten, was convicted for the manslaughter ...

In a shocking turn of events, in 2002 Mr Hoogstraten was sentenced to 10 years in jail for the manslaughter of his business rival Mohammed Raja. The conviction was later quashed on appeal, but van ...

For 20 years, this was the daily routine kept by "Mr N Hamilton", sometime alias of Nicholas van Hoogstraten, multi-millionaire property tycoon, would-be feudal baron and self-styled heir to ...