Businessman punished ex-wife with hammer outside her workplace When I pulled his hood down, it confirmed what I already knew
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A successful businessman “punished” his ex-wife for leaving him by attacking her with a hammer and screwdriver.
Alec Butt, 71, was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on Monday (May 10) to seven years and nine months in prison, after being found guilty of grievous bodily harm against the mother of his children.
A successful businessman has been given a seven-year sentence after he punished his ex-wife for leaving him by attacking her with a hammer and screwdriver.
Alec Butt, 71, was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on Monday to seven years and nine months in prison, while he is set to serve the final third on licence.
The judge rejected Butt s claim that he had acted in self-defence as he was found guilty of grievous bodily harm against his ex-wife Anna Butt.
The trial was only held in March 2021, after being postponed due to coronavirus. When it was delayed, Anna said she felt like the world crumbled around me as she struggled to deal with the unknown .
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A £48million mansion nestled in the hills above the French Riviera must be demolished after a court ruling brought a 15-year legal standoff to an end.
Property tycoon Patrick Diter built a 32,000 sq ft Italianate palace, dubbed Chateau Diter , on the site of what was once a modest 2,000 sq ft farmhouse without first obtaining planning permission.
The building work started in 2005 and in 2009 a group of disgruntled neighbours, led by British millionaires Stephen and Caroline Butt, took Mr Diter to court, deciding the building frenzy had to stop .
In 2015 an appeal court in Aix-en-Provence ruled that the chateau must be demolished. Only the small original house was spared.
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The so-called Chateau Diter - the 32,000-square foot Italianate palace built by property tycoon Patrick Diter (and named after him) - is set to be demolished after he lost a 15 year court battle with neighbouring millionaires, Stephen and Caroline Butt.
Why? A failure to obtain a building permit for the project, which begun in 2005 and was completed in 2009, on the site of what was once a 2,000-square foot farmhouse in the South of France. Diter had been appealing a court decision in 2015 to destroy all but the original house, but now France s highest court, la Cour de Cassation, has ruled the original decision must be upheld.