The businessman has claimed that intruders had targeted his underwater ballroom, a glass-domed room accessible via a tunnel beneath one of the man-made lakes on the grounds of Witley Estate.
Tom Frearson, then 16, feared for his life after Gary Steele, 63, boss of a successful superfast broadband tech firm, shot him from over a wall at his 1,300 acre Witley Estate, near Godalming, Surrey.
A technology tycoon was “frightened” by the prospect of trespassers entering his £30 million country estate when he turned his shotgun on a 16-year-old, a court
A teenager who was shot while allegedly trespassing on the grounds of a renowned country house with an underwater ballroom is suing the property’s owner for £2