Overview

• In an exclusive interview, the 80-year-old property magnate dismissed his criminal convictions as “bull***,” denied responsibility for a 1968 grenade attack, and called his Old Bailey manslaughter case “bull****” before noting it was quashed on appeal.
• He remains legally tied to the 1999 killing of Mohammed Raja through a 2005 High Court ruling that, on the balance of probabilities, found he hired the killers and ordered him to pay £1.5 million in damages.
• He defended his vast landholdings in Zimbabwe and his relationship with Robert Mugabe, claiming he provides healthcare, education and support to thousands living on his estates and insisting he was not involved in corruption.
• Hamilton Palace in Sussex, begun in 1985 and still unfinished, has been touted by estate agents as potentially worth up to £100 million if completed, and he and his son say they will not sell it despite multiple approaches.
• The family cites construction errors, his murder trial and his focus on Zimbabwe as reasons work stopped, and they report round-the-clock security at the site as they deal with trespassing and repeated burglaries.