Rambler Baiter Goes Down For Manslaughter
Millionaire Nicholas van Hoogstraten, who has been involved in a protracted battle with the Ramblers over a blocked path, has been found guilty of manslaughter
Posted: 22 July 2002
by Jon
Nicolas van Hoogstraten, the bete noire of the Ramblers
Association, has been found guilty of manslaughter.
The Ramblers have been engaged in a protracted battle with the
millionaire over the blocking of a footpath running through the
grounds of his house near Uckfield in East Sussex. The most recent
episode in the saga saw the RA take Sussex County Council to court
over their failure to remove obstructions to the path. Despite
losing, the Ramblers have been given leave to appeal.
Hoogstraten's campaign against the Ramblers included some rather
eccentric pronouncements - see links to previous articles below -
including an assertion that they are 'a bunch of disenfranchised
perverts' and 'You ask any policeman, he'll tell you. They're what we
call the dirty mac brigade. Flashers. Very few decent upright
citizens, people who pay their rates, taxes, and have a house they
own are anything to do with the Ramblers Association.'
More soberingly, at the time the deputy leader of East Sussex
county council is said to have told the Independent that his officers
were 'frightened to death' of van Hoogstraten.
The millionaire has not yet been sentenced, but it seems likely
that the legal battle over the path will be the last thing on his
mind right now.
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Bearing in mind he called Ramblers 'scum', he's probably a hero over on BM (JOKE). If you have to be a nasty piece of work like him to become a millionaire, I think I'll give up trying.
Posted: 22/07/2002 at 17:42
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