Meddling Minty stokes the fires of British fascism

[Peter Presland]

Mrs Young, 45, described how she was told by her husband in 2006 to meet Mr Fomichev, who would give her £10,000 towards her living expenses.
She said: ‘He said that I should go to Davies Street in Mayfair and wait outside the Toni & Guy hairdressing salon . . . a man drove up in a Porsche and stepped out.
'I recognised him from a photograph I had seen of him and Scott and knew that he had worked with a solicitor called Stephen Curtis in the sale of our Wentworth Park estate.
‘He asked if I was Michelle . . . then he handed me an envelope stuffed with banknotes.
‘He did look a little embarrassed. He got back in his car and drove away.’

To be strictly accurate, I think the hairdressing salon was Damien & Jason not Toni & Guy.

One wonders what this "Horsy" set woman knows that allows her to engage in such blackmail?

Well I'm splitting my sides at the banter as usual - still think our DG and PR should collaborate on a new Monthy-Python-like venture. But the thing that jumped off the page of that Daily Mail article was the name 'Stephen Curtis'. Any involvement with that guy is pure bad news

He died in a helicopter crash near Bournmouth in 2005. Official investigation says accident/malfunction naturally enough. He was heavily involved with the whole arms to Iraq scandals of the 80's that enriched many Tory politicians/king-makers and spooks like Stephan Adolphus Kock - plus the largely abortive (because demonstrably corrupt) prosecutions of various businessmen in such firms as Matrix Churchill and Sheffield Forgemasters of the Gerald Bull (another dead man) supergun affair. It's what he cut his arms-dealing - oligarch-helping - generally crooked legal manipulating on in fact.