Avtar Sandhu and allen Trump

Avtar Sandhu and Allen Trump

COVENTRY BEES CLUB DIRECTORY

Brandon Stadium, Rugby Road, Brandon, Coventry CV8 3GJ.

These Two Men...? Are they on the same team...? Do they do business deals the same way...? Are They doing Business at the moment.......? Do people know the real truth....?

These are two Business men, they both seem to enjoy the same sport. But Allen seems to enjoy a bit more sport than Avtar, He likes to take sick old ladies money when he can gets the chance, Does Avtar know the Truth...????


Allen Trump lands Coventry Bees

Nov 26 2007 by David Rowe

WEST COUNTRY-based businessman Allen Trump is the new man at the helm of the Coventry Buildbase Bees.

Stadium owner Avtar Sandhu has completed a deal which will see Trump lease the team for the 2008 Elite League season with an option to buy it outright at the end of the campaign.

Sandhu says he will continue to offer his backing to the riders, while also maintaining a presence at Brandon by being the front-man of the stock car side of the business, which continues as before.

(Avtar May Need A STOCK car to knock Allen of the Track)



Allen Trump
1 Eyemore Drive
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Ottery St. Mary,
EX11 1UN

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Nicholas Llewellyn Morris-v-Allen Trump

Fraud-v- Plausible Deniability

My name is Nicholas Llewellyn Morris and live at 55 Graig Newydd Godrergraig, Swansea. SA9 2DG. I live at this address with my wife and two daughters.

1. I was first introduced to millionaire Mr. Alan Trump in or about 2005/06. The introduction was made by Mr. Barry Evans, then acting in his capacity as director of RBSNatWest bank. I do not recall where exactly the first meeting took place. It was either at the bank in Swansea or at the ongoing site at Graig Newydd, Godrergraig, in the upper Swansea Valley. This building site was my first ‘new homes’ building venture and was completed satisfactorily. This site comprised seventeen dwelling houses, all of which were sold and currently occupied.

2. I believe that the purpose of our first meeting was to discuss a proposed buy-out of Peter Morgan Estate Agents for circa £450.000. The plan was to increase the profits, the property portfolio and property target areas throughout South Wales.

3. At the time of the proposed take-over I had already purchased a 50% share in a Swansea -based estate agent called Simpson Evans Limited. I replaced an existing partner by the name of Nick Simpson. There was a personality clash with the joint partner Mr. Chris Evans. On joining I became an equal partner. Contracts were drawn up between Simpson Evans Limited and Peter Morgan but Mr. Chris Evans believing that the operational running of the expanded business would be too burdensome the contract was returned. I had no previous experience of the workings of an estate agency practice and accepted the word of Mr. Chris Evans that the proposed take-over would be impracticable and unworkable. I did not see nor did I ask to see any current financial figures as to how he came to that view. I trusted him implicitly.

4. Accordingly the initial contact with Alan Trump ceased temporarily.

5. With the completion of the Graig Newydd development site a search was actively being made by me to acquire more land for housing development. This search finally ended with the acquisition of two acres of land at Rhyd-y-fro within four miles of the original site. There was no other land in the locality which suited us, bearing in mind the size of our company, the cost and inherent difficulties in other sites. I met with the owner of the land several times called Helmut Peshman(deceased) and agreed a verbal contract that in exchange for a £65,0000 deposit he would allow a six-month delayed completion to take place to allow me an opportunity to secure planning permission. Contacts were agreed drawn up and signed. Mr. Helmut Peshman would not agree to a contractual variation. He was an elderly and wealthy man.

6. The initial deposit was obtained from my elderly parents and deposited with Andrew Thomas solicitors in the form of a cheque. This legal company operates from 117 Walter Road, Swansea. Andrew Thomas has been my personal and professional solicitor for approximately twenty years. A written agreement was then drafted that this sum was only to be used for the said deposit and for nothing else. The exchange of contracts took place and the six month period for delayed completion started ticking. During this period the estate agency of Simpson Evans started to hemorrhage money. The property market had peaked and the practice required £50,000 per month to break even.

7. The building company Oakview Horizons Limited of whom I was one of five named directors and which I along with my wife, Jane held a fifty per cent shareholding absolutely was now required to pay large amounts of its available capital to keep the agency solvent. It became clear very quickly that this money was essentially its only mans of salvation. Over a period of about a year I would estimate that the building company and myself personally put in a sum in the region of £350,000.00p. This was usually paid monthly following an on-going assessment of the prospects of the agency. This finally left myself and my wife with liabilities of approximately £2000.000.00p.

8.This state of affairs put me under unbearable financial pressure as it soon became apparent that the agency was now floundering and incapable of surviving and being profitable, despite in hindsight my reasonable belief that it would do so. The drain on the company’s reserves as well as my own was occurring at such an alarming rate that the completion was not going to take place as agreed without the intervention f a third party.

9. I then contacted Mr. Barry Evans and following a full and frank conversation with him, he said that he would ‘give it some thought’. He then spoke to Mr. Alan Trump who was one of his previous best clients in Exeter, where Mr. Evans was associate director of commercial property prior to his move to Swansea. It was then agreed that a meeting take place between me and Mr. Alan Trump in a service station called Eastern Inn Godano near Bristol. One of the purposes for this meeting was to ascertain with his financial assistance whether the ‘land deal’ at Rhyd-y-Fro could be retrieved as well as, and of no lesser importance the financial situation of both me and that of my wife. The meeting took place. The meeting took up to two hours.

10. In readiness for this meeting I downloaded both the credit files of both myself and that of my wife for Mr. Alan Trump to puruse. At the meeting I explained to him that at the time, things had not collapsed personally, that both my wife and I were highly credit worthy. That was about to change after a few months. I explained to him clearly, even graphically that bankruptcy was an inevitable consequence if there was no third party intervention.

11. The agenda for this, our first meeting was not fixed. I was there to explore all possibilities and eventualities. Mr. Alan Trump was there to listen. Naturally, I was keenly interested to hear from Mr. Alan Trump himself how my unstable and detiorating financial situation could be in the first instance stabilized and indeed reversed and ultimately for our mutual benefit. I had gone to that meeting with some pre-conceived ideas of my own in the light of my perilous financial state. To this end I revealed to Mr. Trump the full extent of our financial position down to the last penny. I broached the idea with Mr. Alan Trump that the only way I could possibly move forward was to transfer my shareholding in the company whose assets were worth about £7000.00p at best(a green field site without planning permission) and at worst a valueless company with no assets. I was going to transfer a fifty percents shareholding into my parents’ name, because they were owed the money for the deposit. This idea was discussed with my own bankruptcy in mind. The second idea involved a fifty per cent transfer of a shareholding to Mr. Alan Trump and a fifty percent transfer of the shareholding to my parents. This idea involved the joint bankruptcy of both myself and my wife. A third idea was a bankruptcy of myself, and an IVA (individual voluntary arrangement) with my wife Jane or the reverse, or a combination of these ideas. All of these various ideas were rejected by Mr Allen Trump after he had given them consideration. He leaned forward and looked at me across the table and said ‘There is no need’. ‘I am going to save you’. ‘You are under my umbrella now’. Upon this representation and others during this meeting I had never felt more grateful than at any other time in my life. I had gone to that meeting with a racing certainty of my and my wife’s bankruptcy or joint IVA, but left in the knowledge that my future was secure providing planning permission was forthcoming for the site at Rhyd-y-Fro.

12. I explained to Mr. Alan Trump the ‘land deal’ at Rhyd-y-Fro. This was the cornerstone of our discussions. In explaining this to him he became increasingly aware of how it would be advantageous to him. I informed him that upon the granting of planning permission, equity would be created in the site, and the site would then be worth 1.1 million pounds. This figure was based on land values in the locality at the time. I then proceeded to explain to him that the profit on the site was conservatively estimated at £700.000.00p. This was based on accepted and detailed costs and plans prepared by Mr. Robin Messer-current quantity surveyor and site agent, Mr. Huw Griffiths, an experienced Swansea-based architect, with whom I had established a solid working relation, myself, using the accepted figures and formats that Nat West’s own quantity surveyors E.R Brown were currently using.

13. In other words these were tried tested and current figures. The costs and profit predictions and estimated value of the land subject to planning were all revealed to Mr. Alan Trump at this meeting. He took away with him copies of all the costs and my wife’s and my own credit files. I pointed out to him that the uplift in the value of the land (pre/post planning) plus the profit in developing the site came to well over one million pounds. He came to the conclusion after several minutes that if planning could be achieved that bankruptcy of myself and that of my wife could be averted and with him as a partner. He then uttered the words that ‘I could become a much stronger entity under his umbrella of protection’. He said ‘there is no need for you to go bankrupt’. ‘I am going to save you’. During the course of this meeting Mr. Alan Trump expressed repeated interest in NHBC registered builder status of Oakview Homes. It was not immediately apparent at the time, but this was something new to him. This was highly significant, which I now realize was a major acquisition for Mr. Alan Trump. My focus had centered purely on my personal financial affairs, Mr. Alan trump’s focus was far more expansive initially but became more acutely focused on the NHBC registration which drew from Mr. Alan Trump a series of probing questions.

14. In order for me to develop the original site at Graig Newydd with the assistance of RBS NatWest bank, Mr. Barry Evans explained to me, that to meet certain criteria of the bank’s lending facilities, Oakview Homes Limited needed to be an NHBC registered builder which was a protracted process. There was a probationary period of over a year of repeated detailed and satisfactory inspections by Mr. Ian Jenkins and Mr. Rowan Evans before full admission was granted before admission to the register. Registration was duly obtained by me.

15. I was aware that Mr. Alan Trump had a significant property portfolio of rented houses and he explained to me at the meeting that he wanted to move into ‘new build sites’. In order to do this he needed NHBC builder registration which he could not obtain alone. If he was to achieve this ambition he needed a competent partner with a track record who was competent and capable, who had obtained full registration to the register. I was that person. I needed Mr. Alan Trump as much as he needed me although I did not know it. In due course and without my knowledge he gained in an underhand fashion further NHBC registrations which he later applied to a number of developments. These all had serious technical flaws. He effectively stole the registration when he stole the company Oakview Land Limited. If I were in due course to attempt to re-establish myself as an NHBC builder and apply for re-admittance to the register, a cursory examination would reveal my links to a company or companies which have attracted a number of legal claims against them although in reality I have nothing to do with these new companies or any building construction undertaken by them, now or in the future. The hijacking of the registration by Mr. Alan Trump, who is and remains technically incompetent in this area, has in all probability seriously diminished my prospects of re-admittance to the NHBC register. That of course was not said nor apparently clear to me at the time, owing to what I regarded as my horrific personal circumstances and my deteriorating mental capabilities to deal with the unfolding mess, which I and I alone was responsible for dealing with. No financial help would be forthcoming from any further source other than from Mr. Alan Trump which he wasted no time in reminding me of and that he’, and he alone had the power to save me’.

16. Mr. Alan Trump remained very coy about the matter being discussed and revealed very little. At the end of the meeting Mr. Trump proposed a fifty-fifty partnership subject to planning permission. He asked me whether I was capable of funding my £200.000.00p loans until legal completion of the site. I answered that I was just able to do so. He said that at that point, at the valuation of the site at 1.1 million he would clear the loans and restore the status quo. That he would put me back on an even keel, that is, solvent and able to carry on, with himself, fully reimbursed and protected with a handsome profit. We shook hands and he repeated the words ‘Don’t worry I’m going to save you, I am your white knight’. He also repeated to me again ‘You are under my umbrella now. Just make sure you get the planning permission’. We parted company on a clear understanding of the way forward and were to keep in touch on a regular basis on all matters no matter how trivial by phone and my email. These details were exchanged at the meeting. At the end of the meeting and with his constant reassurances ‘that my glass was half full (his words) my relief was palpable. On returning to the car I had tears of joy. With his assurances ringing in my years, I was satisfied that I was being steered away from the rocks of insolvency I was now however at the mercy of Mr. Alan Trump and totally dependant on his visible but as yet unproven business acumen, honesty and integrity.

17. There then followed a conversation with Mr. Barry Evans and Mr. Robin Messer that the meeting had gone better than expected and thereafter continued to complete the final construction at Graig Newydd and proceed with the planning permission for the new site which was Mr. Alan Trump’s only condition. The new site was operated under Oakview Land Limited. I set up this company naming myself and Mr. Chris Evans as director/secretary. Mr. Alan Trump was installed as a director at his insistence and took over the running of the company. I was supposed to be a director but was only named as a company secretary. The shareholding was left at a fifty-fifty split between myself, and Mr. Alan Trump. This was done to give him security over the clearing of my debts. The site at Rhyd-y-fro at this time was a ‘green-field site. Mr. Mr. Huw Griffiths and I worked tirelessly to acquire planning permission which was finally granted with a very short window to expiry of the six-month contract.

18. So close was it to missing the deadline that I had pursued other employment opportunities namely working offshore on an oil rig. To this extent I passed a three-day BOSIET safety certificated course. In normal circumstances this was not a problem but the prospect of being confined in small spaces seemed to accentuate my personal problems. With me in Blackpool for the duration of the course was my friend Mr Martin Griffiths who was a witness to the next sequence of events.

19. The purchase price of the land was £650.000.00p. Developing the Rhyd-y-fro site was another three million pounds which would be financed by Nat West Bank. To this end the bank wanted an arrangement fee of approximately £70.000.00p which Mr. Alan Trump, myself and Mr. Barry Evans had fully agreed would be paid at an earlier meeting. This meeting was in the Dillwyn Arms Public house in Pontardawe following Mr. Trump’s first inspection of the Rhyd-y-fro development site.

20. Whilst in Blackpool for completion of the course, I received a telephone call initially from Mr. Alan Trump at about 10.30pm or possibly later. Mr. Alan Trump opened the conversation with the words, ‘This arrangement fee, do you want to pay it’. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I couldn’t understand what I was hearing. I asked him what he meant. He then retorted that he was not paying it. I told him that I had no other sources of finance and that the site was finished. It was obvious that by not paying the arrangement fee the loans would not be forthcoming. I was visibly shaking and felt sick. Mr. Alan Trump replied ‘Well, no’. I asked him what he could possibly do to retrieve this situation.

21. It is worth repeating at this juncture that Mr. Alan Trump continually repeated the question ’Do you want to pay it’ When I said I couldn’t pay it, he changed it slightly, are you telling me you don’t want to pay it. I said ‘No Alan that is not what I’m telling you at all. There is the arrangement fee to pay and that’s it’. Mr. Trump replied ’you may think that Barry has done you favours, but the only favour he’s done is for Barry and no-one else’. I replied ‘Look Alan , we’ve struck a deal. Why did you agree to it at the meeting rather than say you were not happy with the fee. He made crystal clear to me the choices which I now had. I could on the one hand ring Mr. Barry Evans, whom I regarded as a friend and tell him the conversations I was having with Mr. Alan Trump when the deal would be very obviously finished or remain silent and the site would complete. My motives for remaining silent were that my personal loans would be paid and personal ruination would be averted at the last possible minute. I now realize that by phrasing the initial question in this way Mr. Alan Trump clearly wanted me to make a decision which he was intent on making himself in any event, whatever the prevailing circumstances. The final decision was in fact his. I now realized in that moment that if he was prepared to burn his lengthy relation with Mr. Barry Evans I was dealing with a treacherous and ruthless individual who would think nothing of squashing an innocent ant under his shoe. I was now completely defenceless. There is no better description of Mr. Alan Trump than the one he attributed to himself as being ‘the iron fist in the velvet glove’. You don’t see him coming until it’s too late.

22. For the bank to sanction this loan, our development costs had to be fully ratified by the banks quantity surveyors. A company called Shaun Condron Partnership of Mumbles Swansea. The pressure is now enormous, days before expiry of the contract all the major players apart from Mr. Trump are furiously trying to pull the whole deal together. If this were not done the contract would be voided in a few days time, Mr. Helmut Peshman would keep the £65,000.00p deposit together with full planning permission for the site where none previously existed. The banks quantity surveyor’s had requested a small amount of additional information from myself and Robin Messer to finally send off of their file. This was one possibly two days before the effective expiry of the contract. It was at this time that the telephone call from Mr. Alan Trump came through to Blackpool. He obviously had a plan, a plan I believe had been conceived much earlier but was only now being made known to me.

23. I was told that I was about to be ruined in forty eight hours time. This was a spoken truth. Mr. Alan Trump said that he would not under any circumstances take any form of communication, by telephone from Mr. Barry Evans and Miss Joanne McChrystal-responsible for the ‘drafting mechanics’ of the Rhyd-y-Fro site. He then delivered the knock-out blow that I was not under any circumstances to pass on the final information needed by the Shaun Condron Partnership to complete the file. I still couldn’t see where this was leading. I repeated ad nauseum, ‘I don’t understand how this helps’. He then spelt it out in clear terms, namely that the bank deadline would pass, that the bank would appear to have failed and that he would coming riding forth ‘like a white knight to save the situation’. He said that hours before completion he would telegraph(TT) a transfer of £585,000.OOp into Roy Thomas Begley, Solicitors, of Swansea, the appointed solicitors to then transfer it to Helmut Peshman solicitors-namely David Jones of solicitors Peter Williams & Co. Mr. Alan Trump may well as put a gun to the side of my head.

24. The bank’s deadline passed. The information required by the Shaun Condron Partnership was not provided and the file did not therefore go before the bank’s credit committee. I explained to Mr. Martin Griffiths that my position was now hopeless. I told him that Mr. Barry Evans had done nothing but favours. He was instrumental in lending me a million pounds in a successful development of Graig Newydd and in setting up the potential success of the Rhyd-y-fro site. I had learnt at an earlier meeting that Mr. Barry Evans had also introduced Mr Alan Trump to property. The choice I had was stark to be personally ruined as a family or the stabbing through the heart of someone who had gone out of his way to assist myself and Mr Alan Trump. For no real reason that I could understand this was about to end. In the grand scheme of things as they then stood the £70.000 agreed arrangement fee was neither here nor there. I spoke to Martin about the conversation, he pointed out to me that I was now cornered and that Mr. Alan Trump had me ‘by the fucking bollocks’. I said he was ‘dangling me like a puppet and his hands were around my throat as surely as if he was there’.

25. On the day of completion I was still in Blackpool. During a mid-morning coffee break with Mr Martin Griffiths, my mobile telephone rang. It was Mr. David Yabsley, a former bank manager, now in the employment of Mr. Alan Trump. He was as far as I am aware his second in command-a trusted lieutenant. He said to me ‘Congratulations, the £585,000.00p has been transferred to Messrs Roy Thomas Begley (of Swansea). You have completed on the site. You can breathe a sigh of relief’ and then laughed. We exchanged pleasantries and the conversation ended. Mr. Martin Griffiths also offered his congratulations when I reported to him what I had been told. I told Martin ‘Yeah, or maybe there’s two bullets in Alan Trump’s gun, one with Barry’s name on it and one with my name on it’. I told him that ‘I was seriously out of my depth with his guy and there was nothing I could do about it’. He replied ‘I hope not’.

26. Up until this point everything was being done by the book with one objective in mind, namely, to secure the loan. There was no indication not even a hint of what was to follow. Days after completion the full extent of Mr. Alan’s Trump’s plans was revealed. Mr. Barry Evans was now completely out of the picture. Mr. Alan Trump was now prepared to portray Mr. Barry Evans and his team to his own financial advisers at the branch of RBS NatWest in Exeter and the world at large as commercial failures, when they had in fact done everything humanly possible to make the deal go through. He, Alan Trump was now free of the £70,000.00p arrangement fee, and any influence that Mr. Barry Evans or any other bank official at the Nat West branch in Swansea could exercise to protect my interests in the Rhyd-y fro deal.

27. Mr. Alan Trump then telephoned me a few days later that the site which had been effectively purchased for cash would now be financed by Nat West Bank in Exeter for no arrangement fee and at a rate of interest of 0.75% over base. This was on hugely more favourable terms than given to him from the RBS NatWest bank in Swansea. He told me that the paperwork would be along presently for me to sign which in due course it did from Exeter and I signed a personal guarantee to become a joint party to the RBSNatWest bank loan which I now believe stands at around £700.000.00p to this day. I was made aware of this by Mr. Alan Trump about two years ago in or about 2007 as I was not, despite being a joint account holder, allowed to make any formal or informal communication with the bank without his express permission. I was so terrified of him at this stage that I felt any contact with the bank would have been immediately referred back to Mr. Alan Trump. He was now firmly dictating all matters and how he saw the Rhyd-y-fro site moving forward. His power was absolute.

28. Within a short period of time as arranged with Mr. Alan Trump and with my own funds running dangerously low the time had arrived for him to do what he had promised to do from day one. Having been verbally tortured and abuse over a 99p stapler I was shaking when I made the call to him. He said that he had had thoughts on the matter and said I needed to feel some pain. I asked him what he meant. He told me that he had given further consideration to the matter and that he couldn’t see where his security was going to come from to pay the loans. I replied to him that I had nothing left to give him as security apart from my remaining fifty per cent shareholding, to which he replied ‘That’s right’. I was left me under no illusions what this meant. It meant that if I wanted to avert the bankruptcy of myself and that of my wife I would have to part with 100% security of the site instead of the agreed fifty per cent. The deal was now being altered to my detriment. If this were done, all the up-lift in the land (approximately £500,000) being the difference in its original purchase price without planning and the bank’s value of 1.1 million, plus the projected profits of £700.000.00p would be under the direct control of Mr. Alan Trump. If I did not comply I was a bankrupt statistic.

29. Very early in October Mr. Alan Trump ‘politely ‘explained to me that because the £700,000.00p profit had not been realized because we had not developed the site he could not pay the loans off as agreed and that he would have to maintain the minimum payments until enough houses had been constructed to justify clearing the loans against his security. I told Mr. Alan Trump that this would cost an extra one hundred thousand pounds approximately in interest charges to me and would effectively wipe out any money at all from the site to me. He replied to me that if he was to pay of the loans immediately then there would be no real reason for me to stay on the Rhyd-y-fro site for the next two years and I could leave him in the lurch. I replied ‘That’s not the case Alan’. It would be utter madness for me to walk, because there would still be half the up-lift in the land plus the original deposit of £65,000.00p which was mine, and due back to my parents. I even tried to say to Mr. Alan Trump that I would be better off paying him £50,000.00p interest to clear the loans now or even the £100.000.00p interest to him for the peace of mind to avert mine and my wife’s impending bankruptcy. He said ‘No’.’ You need to feel some pain’. Mr. Alan Trump kept on telling me that he did not have enough security on reflection to not only clear the loans but to maintain the minimum payments which amounted to approximately £4000.00p per month. Once again I was staring complete personal ruination in the face.

30. I was under no illusions at this point that if I did not sign over those shares over to Mr. Alan Trump then I was finished. Worse than that, my wife was finished because I had allowed £50,000.00p of debt in her name in advertising bills in the estate agency of Simpson Evans. Even worse that if Mr. Alan Trump pulled the plug on the site then my elderly parents would never see their deposit ever again. I was at his mercy and Mr. Alan Trump knew it and that this was where it had all been leading. I agreed under extreme duress to sign over the remaining shares to Mr. Alan Trump to give him a greater degree of security than he already had. He left me under no illusions that if this wasn’t done then there was no way forward and the site was doomed. The choices again for me was stark’- instant death or a possibility of life, which of course was no choice at all.

31. At about this time, still in the month of October Mr. Alan Trump told me to come and meet him to sort the paper work out. This was a watershed meeting, namely the signing over of the entire to him. This meeting took during the late afternoon or early the evening in a hotel in Filton, near Bristol as work on the Rhyd-y-fro site had already started. I had asked Mr. Robin Messer to come with me for moral support and I noticed that when we sat down that Mr. Alan Trump seemed surprised that I was not on my own and slightly agitated by the presence of Mr. Messer. At this point I had not told Mr Messer of the transaction which was about to take place. One of the first things I did was to say to him, ‘here are the shares, Alan’. He looked up from the table and said to me ‘There’s no need to do that’. He took the shares anyway. I couldn’t fathom what he was trying to say in the light of previous and detailed conversation that had gone on between us in the week the meeting. I understand now why he was so utterly polite and reasonable in saying this. He had not expected me to bring a witness to this meeting and the transaction taking place. During our return journey Mr. Robin Messer said that he ‘couldn’t believe that I had done that’ and ‘had he known beforehand what I was going to do, ‘I would have talked me out of it’. I replied that Mr. Alan Trump was ‘holding a gun to my head’.

32. In due course work would be commenced on the Rhyd-y-fro site. I was in constant contact with Mr. Alan Trump. Over a period of time, and through no fault of my, my relationship with him gradually soured and became weak. In all our telephone conversations he would preface his remarks. Firstly he would rip to pieces every invoice, in a manner which was over and above any agreed site costs. I would say to him ‘Alan, it’s in the site costs that we’ve both agreed to develop the site. I was being constantly reminded of his’ twenty million pound fortune’ and the fact that he was ‘keeping me solvent’. He constantly berated me that without his benevolence I would be ‘bankrupt, homeless and in the gutter’. Mr. Alan Trump never strayed far from the facts and used them skillfully to oppress me on a daily basis. It reached the point that whenever his name came up on my mobile phone or told by Mr. Robin Messer that contact had been made by Mr. Alan trump to the site by landline, it was usually a recipe for bad news. Sometimes I was visibly sick on site. It got so bad on occasions that I would disappear into an adjoining field after eating to vomit. My behaviour may have seemed unnatural and odd to Mr. Robin Messer, but he said nothing.

33. Work was authorized by Mr. Alan Trump to commence on site in or about early October 2006. The weather conditions were atrocious and it would prove extremely difficult to work the sloping site in these conditions. It was necessary to run each and every financial detail to be agreed by him. Within a week all pretence of a partnership was vapourised into thin air. The relationship was now clearly one of master and servant. The first task was to set up portable site offices. One of the temporary offices which cost £25.00 per week was a toilet block. On receipt of the bill Mr. Alan Trump immediately rang me and said ‘Why the fuck am I paying out for a toilet block and a canteen’ I replied to him that these were the very basic requirements even on a fledgling building site and that it was contrary to health and safety law not to provide these things’ He replied ‘Let them piss in the fucking hedge. I’ve got sites being run from the back of a fucking van’. I explained to Mr. Alan Trump as calmly as I could that I had attended at the request of the Health and Safety Executive and in conjunction with our own health and safety officer/adviser Mr. Gerwyn Morgan a five week course resulting in a site manger’s heath and safety certificate and that I was responsible for health and safety on the site and in any event as a fellow director he could be prosecuted also for any basic breaches of the Health and Safety Regulations. I told him in the clearest terms, firstly we had a health and safety adviser who had constructed a health and safety plan which I was now qualified to operate. My point was that in the event of a prosecution any plea of ignorance of the rules would be fruitless. I further explained to him in order to drive my point home that the national and respected house-builder, Persimmon Homes had themselves been recently prosecuted for allowing a survey to take place on a green field site without washing and toilet facilities being available, let alone trying to develop the site without these facilities. Again he thought about it for a moment and said, ‘OK, it’s coming out of your half of the profits. I was again dumfounded and being knocked back yet again. He was removing on a daily basis necessary and agreed costs from his half of the profits and dumping them on mine. There was nothing I could do, and while he comprehended everything he was being told by me, Mr. Alan trump simply didn’t care a jot, and so it progressed. Every bill that landed on his desk in Exeter was met with derision and a verbal blast over the telephone. This happened despite every financial bill being previously agreed with him.

34. I will provide a further illustration of the difficulties I was encountering with Mr. Alan Trump in trying to run this site. The provision of a telephone, internet access and a fax machine was agreed as a basic necessity for a site that would be running for years. The cost was negligible in the scheme of things. Mr. Alan Trump duly agreed to this. When it came to the actual logistics he rang me again and went ‘berserk’. He told me what the ‘fuck I needed all these items for and why was it that the phone connections were taking so long to install. I told him that I was running on BT‘s time scale and that they wouldn’t move for anybody and the slight delay was because we needed a telegraph pole installed outside the site. It was not as simple as installing in an existing infrastructure’. He replied ‘Stop spending so much time on it’. The provision of invoices for toilet rolls, toilet cleaning equipment, soap, paper, staplers, scissors, he would tear to shreds with continual half-hour verbal/abusive rants to me over the telephone.

35. Within a couple of weeks of the site getting underway, the issue of ‘the wages’ came under scrutiny’. He telephoned me and told me that he had issues with two individuals in particular, namely, myself and the JCB owner driver, Mr. John Spurr. Regarding me, Mr. Alan Trump said that the site could be run by one man. ‘I am not paying for two men to do the job of one man’. I replied ‘Alan It’s a two man site and both sets of wages have been factored into the costs which you agreed to’. He then replied ‘get rid of Robin and run the site yourself’. I explained to Mr. Alan Trump that I needed Robin’s multi-faceted myriad of expertise to run the site and bring it to a successful conclusion without problems. He then said to me ‘You’re the dead weight then’ I then explained to him that I was certainly not a dead weight and that my wages of £450.00pper week was an irrelevant amount of money in the site and had already been factored in to the site costings which he had previously scrutinized and agreed. He replied’ if your wages are such an irrelevance, then they can come out of your half of the profits then. I had to agree to it, I had no choice in the matter. The alternative was his threat to remove Mr. Robin Messer which I knew would result in the collapse of the site and the end of all workings on the site, resulting in my ruin . Mr. Alan Trump knew this also. He knew that the one threat he could always wield over me was the removal of Mr. Robin Messer from the site. That was just one my Achilles heels. I pointed out to Mr. Alan Trump that his thought processes were unfair and holding ‘Robin over my head all the time’. That it was not a positive thing’. He replied ‘That if you expect the hammer to fall on the back of your head it probably will’. Because I had dared challenge Mr. Alan Trump in this way, he again pointed out to me in a not so subtle way as to who was in charge, who was calling the shots, who was in charge of my destiny. He said again ’If you expect the hammer to fall on your head it probably will’. The hammer was of course being raised into position to smash into my head by my supposed saviour Mr. Alan Trump.

36. The wages of Mr. John Spurr were approximately £850.00p per week for the hire of one 180 JCB machine, including fuel plus his own time. He doubled up as the head ground worker when not driving the JCB and as operator of the hired 360 tracked excavator. He was a vital component of the site moving forward at this time. Mr. Alan Trump pointed out to me that as far as he was concerned that ‘his wages were outrageous’ and that they were to be reviewed on a weekly basis with a written report on his and each and everybody’s activities with photographs on a daily basis. His second-in-command Mr. David Yabsley said to me in a subsequent phone call that cameras should be placed onto the site offices with a live internet feed relaying the live pictures of the site to Exeter. I had difficulty in comprehending what I was being told. I had no option to comply with the photographs and the reports.

37. Yet another source of undiluted aggravation between myself and Mr. Alan Trump was the provision and running of a ‘works van’. I already had a van, which was transferred from Oakview Horizons Limited to Oakview Land Limited. This was used on a daily basis by Mr. Robin Messer for the effective running of the site. It was additionally used by a variety of personnel on the site. It was a vital component of the site for speedy delivery of urgent supplies on a site of this magnitude on occasions too numerous to specify. I spoke to Mr. Alan Trump regarding a fuel card. He replied ‘Robin has to come into work anyway’ ‘I’m not paying for Robin or anyone else to come into work’. I said to him, that that was only a fraction of the role of the van on site’. He said ‘how small’. I replied that the van used up in my opinion between £50.00p and £60.00p worth of fuel per week and no more than fifty per cent of that fuel could be attributed to Mr. Robin Messer and other employees coming to work. He then said ‘O.K. I’ll pay fifty per cent of the fuel and Robin can pay the other half himself’. I explained to Mr. Alan Trump once again that the agreement I had with Mr. Robin Messer for the previous two years was that he would pick up employees to the site, those without transport. It was I readily agree a favour for the smooth operation of the site at Graig Newydd and the new site at Rhyd-y-fro. He’s doing you a favour, not me a favour, so if you want to pay his half of the fuel, you pay it’. As far as I was concerned his attitude was infantile and combative. Once again I had no choice but to agree. Mr. Alan Trump said ‘There would be no fuel card’. However as time progressed what did become a source of irritancy was the amount of fuel consumed on site by the generator, to power the site, prior to the installation of electricity and the fuel consumed by the machinery, the 360 and dumper.

38. The behaviour of Mr. Alan Trump was bizarre. It was as if he was trying to embroil me in an argument at every opportunity and on a daily basis. I was in no position to do so and did no succumb to that. With every passing conversation he would become even more unreasonavble and up the ante and would tear into me over anything and everything. The process of ordering materials for the construction of twenty-three dwelling houses had not even begun. When Mr. Alan Trump could see ‘added value’- as he called it to the site he would pay it. The payment of a £10,000.00p electricity connection was paid and settled without a huge debate as with the gas being run to the site. Paying these large sums of money gave in Mr. Alan Trump’s own words gave ‘added value’ to the site. For whatever reason, Mr. Alan trump did not see this expenditure as a wasteful drain on his resources. This would become all too apparent at a later stage.

39. One of the early decisions was the clearing of the site at Rhyd-y-fro. I rang Mr. Alan Trump and said to him that he would need a 360 track machine, a six ton dumper and tele-handler(essentially a fork-lift truck with greater flexibility) I explained to him that on the previous site at Graig Newydd, these things had been ordered long-term and were not effective, and that the best thing to do was to purchase second-hand machines and that no further works on any further building sites would take place, these machine could be readily sold with only a small loss. They would pay for themselves in a matter of months. Mr. Alan Trump immediately replied to me ‘Hire them’. I couldn’t see the sense of this. I told him it was an unwise decision’. He answered again’ Hire them’. He asked me what I needed today. I replied I could do without the tele-hander’. He replied, ‘Just hire the 360 and the dumper’. I couldn’t understand that while everything that I was suggesting was sensible Mr. Alan Trump on the other hand would look to be combative, argumentative at every single decision.

40. It was at this time that I confided in my site manager Mr. Robin Messer, informing him that Mr. Alan Trump was knocking me back at every turn and that as the complexities I could forsee almost insurmountable difficulties at the time. I did not say this to Mr. Robin Messer at the time because I was dependant on him and didn’t want him to lose his job.

41. Within a short period of time as arranged with Mr. Alan Trump and with my own funds running dangerously low the time had arrived for him to do what he had promised to do from day one. Having been verbally tortured and abused over a 99p stapler I was shaking when I made the call to him to pay off the loans in full as planning permission had now been obtained. Mr. Alan Trump was hesitant and then told me that he had given the matter some further thought. I said to him I had ‘no equity in my house’ and ‘there’s no further security I can give you. I said ‘the only security Iv’e got left to my name was the security over the shares in the land. He replied ‘That’s right’. ‘If that is what you want to do’. Again he had manipulated me into a position in which I had no choice. I agreed the full transfer of the shareholding to ‘cover his back’(Mr. Alan Trump’s own words) It now meant that if I wanted to avert the bankruptcy of myself and that of my wife I would have to part with 100% security of the site instead of the agreed fifty per cent. The deal that I had previously agreed with Mr. Alan Trump was now being altered by him to my detriment. If this were done, all the up-lift in the land (approximately £500,000) being the difference in its original purchase price without planning and the bank’s value of 1.1 million, plus the projected profits of £700.000.00p would be under the direct control of Mr. Alan Trump. If I did not comply I and my wife were bankrupt statistics. Within a day or two of this conversation the meeting took place at Filton, near Bristol.

42. After the meeting to which I have previously referred, any movement on the repayment on the loans was stagnant. I again telephoned him by telephone. He became uncontactable for three to four days. I was constantly being given the run-around by Mr. David Yabsley. There was a plethora of excuses why Mr. Alan Trump was not available. I did not think for one moment that he would not pay. I was not really prepared for what came next. I eventually caught him, not through Mr. David Yabsley but by direct contact with Mr. Alan Trump on his own mobile phone. He immediately wanted to talk about progress on the Rhyd-y-fro site. ‘How are things going on the site’. I replied ‘fine , Alan fine’. I told him that I had run out of money. I reminded him again that pursuant to our deal the money was going to run out in September (2006), the date of which had now passed. He said, It’s not a problem, ‘Iv’e just been busy. Don’t worry’. He asked me the if he could ring me back because he said he said he was in a meeting’. (He always appeared to be in or about to start a meeting no matter what time we spoke by telephone) A day passed before he returned the call. Again he told me that he had looked at the figures and given the matter further thought and because the profit had not been realized from the site and because he had spent on the site and that the added value would not be going on to the site in its early stages that the loans could not justified being repaid in full. I was in a state of utter bewilderment and couldn’t see the end game. Mr. Alan Trump told me that what needed to be done ‘to cover his back’(a regular catchphrase of his) was to maintain the minimum payments on mine and my wife’s loans/credit cards, until such time as enough houses had been sold that the profits were starting to be realized from the site. He said to me ‘I have given the matter some thought and that if I was paying off the loans in full at this time there would be no real reason for you to stay on the sight for the next two years and that You could leave me in the lurch’. I replied, ‘That’s not the case. I told him it would me madness for me to leave. What was remaining after clearing the loans was the deposit, the fifty percent uplift in the land value and a £150,000.00p left over in the profit for me. I then pointed out to him that if the loans were left to run for th next to years then approximately £100.000.00p of the remaining £150.000.00p profit would be chewed up in interest payments. I said to Mr. Alan Trump that I would be better off giving him an extra £50,000,00p or even the full £1000.000.00p for the piece of mind to clear the loans. At this point he said ‘No. I think you need to feel some pain’. ‘We will have to maintain the minimum payments’. I had no choice but to agree to this revised deal wherever it was leading me.

43. Within a week of this revised deal Mr. Alan Trump started to apply the pressure in earnest in respect of all matters occurring on the Rhyd-y-fro site. It had not been said openly, but I knew that Mr. Alan Trump wanted mw to walk away from the site

44. Mr. Alan Trump had not at any stage factored into the equation, not even attached any importance that whatever the pressure applied to me by him arising principally from the operation of the site I would not and could not walk away from the deal and the site as he wanted. The two factors operating uppermost in my mind were the return of the deposit to my elderly and by now ill parents and the solvency of my wife. None of this mattered to Mr. Alan Trump. By ratcheting up the pressure on a daily basis or by scheming by other methods his plan would however come to fruition.

45. The next important staging post was the attempted split of myself from any involvement with Mr. Robin Messer. In our regular telephone conversations and through his continual rants he would tell me that he ‘didn’t like the influence that Robin had over me’ He said it was ‘very unhealthy, negative, like a svengali-type grip’ I couldn’t see where Mr. Alan Trump was coming with this. Mr. Robin Messer was nothing but a straight forward guy, simply doing his job. Under these trying circumstances, I dare not say that to him.

46. Early on in the site and at the meeting in Bristol the matter of a clean company car for Mr. Robin Messer had been raised with Mr. Alan Trump. From the very first moment Mr. Alan Trump had made clear to me that as far as he was concerned there were only two ‘show stoppers’ namely my obtaining of the planning permission and his payment of the £585,000.00p. He said that all other matters were ‘minor’ and would be dealt with on a rolling basis. His catchprase was ‘We don’t need to know the answers, just the questions’. The provision of a car as far as I was concerned was a ‘minor’ matter. Again this was very straight forward and needed dealing with as was the issue of a petrol card. He told me to get some costs and come back to him. The type of vehicle that Mr. Messer was interested in was a Toyota Rav 4 and leasing costs were approximately £250.00p. per month. Mr. Alan Trump led me to believe that this would be cleared. He told me to send him down a photograph of the vehicle with its associated costs, which I did, with a week or so I again heard from Mr. Alan Trump by phone incandescent with rage. He told me ‘You want to spend £20,000.00p of my money on a fucking car, not just any old car, but a fucking £20,000.00p car. Who the fuck does Robin think he is’. I tried to explain to him in concilliatry terms that we had verbally agreed with Robin a car and that it was only a lease which would costs approximately £6000.00p. I said to Mr. Alan Trump that if he felt so strongly about it that he could take the lease money from my half of the profits. This was generally Mr. Alan Trump’s answer to any costs that did not add any ‘added value’ to the site. I was surprised that he said no to that suggestion. He added, ‘Tell Robin to fuck off’. He’s a greedy bastard and smells my money’. He said ‘I didn’t fucking agree anything’. If you want to get him a car. It’s your fucking problem’. ‘He’s a bad influence on you’ I don’t like him’. I pointed out to Mr. Trump that we had verbally agreed a car which as far as I could take it because I was under his direct command and control.

47. I fully realized that if I was to go back to Mr. Robin Messer empty handed who himself by this time was begining to realize the scale of the problems with Mr. Alan Trump it could well be the straw that was to break the camels back and the end of the site which of course what Mr. Alan Trump was banking on. I then managed unbeknown to Mr. Trump and after a great deal of soul searching to secure a lease through my own efforts of the car in question. It was delivered about a month later. I told Mr. Robin Messer that Mr. Alan Trump had issues with the vehicle but that one had been ordered in any event. It was not until some time later what had actually transpired in my conversation with him. At the end of this conversation I remember being physically sick in the field adjacent to the site. The pressure was not just daily, it had become hourly and the pain I was feeling was physical.

48. Mr. Alan Trump’s next move was to demand the figures for the wages on sites. These were to be sent by e-mail every Wednesday in the week. He would send individual cheques down for the various wages to be paid on Friday. Very early on cheques would not arrive by the due date for payment and I would have to drive to Bristol to meet him to personally collect the cheques to then do the return journey to meet the deadline for payment at the end of the day. I knew as did Mr. Alan Trump that this was unworkable. The ‘cheque run’ was missed on more than one occasion, either because there was nothing in the post which would cause me to travel to Bristol that day or Mr. Trump saying he was ‘Unable to meet me and that the cheques would arrive by the following Monday’. He would constantly blame Mr. David Yabsley for the failings, ‘Why don’t I know about this’. I replied ‘because I can’t get hold of You Alan, and I don’t want to give David any hassle. He replied ‘I see’. I knew however that he was the architect of it all along. I offered Mr. Alan Trump an easy solution on more than one occasion. This was to open a second company account in the local Nat west bank in Swansea with a relatively small float of about five thousand pounds which as his ‘equal’ business partner I could write the wages from and have the money replaced straight away. Mr. Alan Trump would have security of the entire site and profits to cover this five thousand pounds. To this proposal Mr. Alan Trump refused. He said, ‘This system must be made to work. It is just a logistical problem’.

49. What I now suspected at this stage was no matter how reasonable the suggestion I put forward Mr. Alan Trump would not co-operate for the smooth operation of the site. He wanted the pressure to reach a level when I would voluntarily walk away from the deal. To this end the ‘angle’ with the cheque payment irregularities was that Mr. Robin Messeer or Mr. John Spurr, in particular two vital components of the site would tire constantly of being paid late and walk. This would cause the collapse of the site and Mr. Alan Trump could terminate our agreement in that way. I had watched the ruthless efficiency of how he had orchestrated with ruthless efficiency the collapse of the original deal with the Swansea arm of Nat West. I knew what his aims were and i was powerless to prevent it. To this day I don’t know how Mr. Robin Messer, Mr. John Spurr put up with this state of affairs. I suspect they needed the money and wee not fully conversant with matters kept hidden in the background.

50. Mr. Alan Trump’s next move in early October was his enquiry about which builder’s merchants I had a rapport with in the locality. I had an account with LBS merchants and a very good relationship with the manager and the staff. I had never paid them late and had ordered up many hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of building materials with them over the previous five years. I had smaller accounts with other merchants which again had an impeccable track record, although not as great as LBS. Mr. Alan Trump told me to carry on with these various relationships and I would be reimbursed on a monthly basis as and when the various accounts needed settling. I had a dreadful and cold feeling inside. I now realized the path he was taking me down and I suspected that at some point my relationship with these various merchants would be obliterated. The successful completion of the building development at Graig Newydd involved payments to the various builder’s merchants, but in particular of LBS of payments of up to £40,000 per month. There was not one occasion when my payments fell into arrears. Had they done so the police of the merchants was clear and irreversible. The accounts would be placed on stop and no materials would be altered. On several occasions involving Mr. Alan Trump a bill would be outstanding to one of the merchants. On one occasion it was as £70.00p. He wouldn’t settle this on time despite my repeated requests. I told him that the account would be placed on stop before it happened, as it happened and after it happened. It made little difference. Accounts would be put on stop and when the bills were eventually paid work could then proceed.

51. Mr. Alan Trump would seek to avoid any responsibility by blaming at every turn his second-in-command Mr. David Yabbsley. It would be the same utterance from him ‘Why wasn’t I told about this. Not only was the bill not being paid, but the administration of the bills was now being attacked. Essentially the life blood of the site was being drained by Mr. Alan Trump. Even a site as a well-oiled machine would encounter problems. With a site moving at an uncomplicated level, prior to the construction of twenty-three houses and its associated infrastructure, including sewers and roads, the obstacles that Mr. Alan Trump was placing in my bath was designed for no other reason than to throw the site into complete chaos, and to such an extent as to insurmountable that I would encounter such intolerable pressure and walk away from our ‘joint venture’. I dare to say to Mr. Alan Trump anything which he perceived as confrontational. When I would say, for example that the payment of the wages or the non-payment of the merchants were not being paid on time and that it was putting me under a huge amount of unnecessary pressure he would say, periodically. ‘Are you telling me you want to leave’. I said ‘Alan, That’s not what I’m telling you at all’. He would not elaborate at all. He would simply reply ‘I see. Mr. Alan Trump would always probe, gaging my state of mind. This is a salient point for he would always ask in the face of this aggravation. ‘How are you feeling, How are you coping with things. How are you feeling about moving forward’. He would then say, ‘I’m getting the feeling that you’re a glass half empty type of guy’.I would respond by saying ‘Alan, I think I’m a positive type of guy’. He would then say that ‘I was preoccupied with my loans and ‘I didn’t need to worry about that. Even at this late stage he was giving me his assurances and guarantee. In later telephone calls to Mr. Robin Messer he started sowing the seeds of ‘my negativity’ by telling him that ‘Nick, was a half-glass empty type of guy’ I felt even in my defence that if I was to tell Mr. Robin Messer even half of what was going on I would lose Robin and others from the site.

52. In the early days of the Rhyd-y-fro site I had allowed materials to be ordered on my accounts which had immediately been paid in a late fashion principally because Mr. Alan Trump would not allow funds to arrive in a timely fashion. An example would be the timber required would be the staircases and landing for the site offices. My biggest worry was a local haulier with whom I had an excellent and long-standing working. His name was Mr. Eifion Phillips. Mr. Alan Trump knew of his existence and his importance to the site. The haulier allowed at one point over one hundred twenty ton lorries to attend the site to remove waste soil as required, without being paid up front. The bill for this work was over £10,000.00p this was fully costed and in the documents he had before him. Mr. Eifion Phillips would never allowed that extent of credit to be built up with anyone other someone with whom he had an unimpeachable and trusted relationship. I sent the bill for settlement as I was ordered to do by Mr. Alan Trump. Weeks went by and the bill grew impercebtibly. I was sick with worry. I telephoned Mr David Yabsley and Mr Alan Trump on a regular basis about the money owed to Mr. Phillips. By the nature of the anxious telephone calls to them both, he Mr. Trump had found another achilles heel. He rang me, ‘What the fuck are all these lorries for’. ‘There’s fucking hundreds of them. I pointed out to him that they were in the agreed and ratified costs. I told him that Mr. Eifion Phillips was a single man band and that he could not afford to be without the money, and that if he wasn’t paid we could not progress with the clearance of the site. Mr. Alan Trump replied that if that was ‘Eifion’s unreasonable attitude’ then ‘I would have to go elsewhere for lorries’. I explained to Alan quite graphically that unless Eifion’s bill was settled then before we had constructed a singe dwelling house and due to the nature of the business we were in the site and our reputation would destroyed before we had even started. Mr. Alan Trump seemed to take this on board and he paid Mr. Eifion Phillips belatedly, though I suspect the only reason he settled the bill was now to carry the site forward with me out of the way if he possibly could at a later date.

53. In regard to the builder’s merchants accounts I told Mr. Alan Trump that we needed to open separate accounts in Oakview Land Limited. It seems he was prepared to accept this and told me to ‘Get on with the opening account procedures’. He told me to ring Mr. David Yabbsley for any details required to open the accounts which I duly did. I was then told subsequently that I needed to talk with Mr. Alan Trump. To complete the required application forms I needed personal information which only Mr. Alan Trump as director of the company was privy to. Mr. Alan Trump told me to ‘get the forms down to Mr. David Yabbsley and he would take care of the account procedures’. As it turned out they were not being dealt with in a timely manner. I was questioned at every turn as to why different accounts were necessary. This was necessary to obtain the keenest prices for all materials. Both Mr. Alan Trump knew why these accounts needed opening but was prevaricating and adopting delaying tactics for no apparent reason. By way of example, I went to open an account with Keyline, specializing in general drainage products. The account was immediately declined. I knew several of the personnel at Keyline personally and asked them ‘off the record’ ‘What was the problem’. They told me that Mr. Alan Trump had been involved with another company that had defaulted with their accounts with Keyline.

54. Mr. Alan Trump had previously told me that ‘there was only a need to ring him for bad things’. I had been asked in my conversations with Mr. David Yabbsley how the account opening procedures had been progressing. I replied’ that Keyline had been declined’. I did not tell him the reason because I was too nervous to do so. Mr Alan Trump was very angry when he rang me. He wanted to know whether ‘Keyline had taken a bank reference from Nat West’. I said ‘I believe so’, (though I doubted it had happened). He was now intent on very direct questioning of me. He asked ‘Why not’, implying that I had done something wrong or misled Keyline in some way. I had done nothing wrong. I told him with as much diplomacy as I could muster that I believed there had been ‘a problem with a company in which he had been previously involved in (probably as director) and Keyline’. He then exploded. ‘You don’t know, You don’t know the lengths I went to try and save that company.’ The conversation ended with my hopeful suggestion that we would try and get around the problem by using existing accounts. The reality was using existing accounts on less favourable terms and ease of supply. Mr. Alan Trump would not under any circumstances have accepted ‘the less favourable terms’ alternative as a solution so I did not mention it to him. By this time in our relationship he, was simply looking to pick an argument from every telephone call we made to each other. He was intent on succeeding.

55. Another example of Mr. Alan Trump’s interference and straining in my established building arose over the supply of road stone to the site. The quantity required ran into thousands of tons. My existing and perfect accounts with Hanson Plc, and my personal contact with Mr. Leighton Norton, the representative for that company were transferred to the new company, Oakview Land Limited. This was done jointly by Mr. Leighton Norton Mr. David Yabbsley and myself. I had no choice in the matter. The site needed stone. My own previous impeccable track record with various stone suppliers was now falling off the edge of a cliff, with payment being delayed unreasonable and accounts being placed on stop for relatively tiny amounts of money. This would eventually happen to the Hanson Plc account like all others. The relationship with Mr. Leighton Norton was long-standing built over a period of five years and covered through his association with a number of ‘aggregate’ companies many tens of thousands of tons of stone for which no account had been paid late. It was a record to be proud of. I knew this was about to change. It changed within a couple of hundred tons after completion of the paper work and an initial order of stone. When the account was not paid on time Mr. Leighton Norton would come to site for payment. It was an embarrassing meeting for which I could give no reasonable explanation.. I would phone Mr. Alan Trump, informing him ‘that the site was on stop, that nothing else was coming and that I needed a cheque to keep going’. A cheque for a thousand pounds or more would be authorized, and the site would limp forward. Mr. Leighton Norton would continue to call at the Rhyd-y-fro site for payments.

56. I began to confide in Mr. Robin Messer at this stage, informing him, that it was now my firm belief, that we would never see ‘a footing (the foundation of the first house) on the site, leave alone the site completed. He replied, ‘We should try to keep going as long as we can. We would continue to try and work around things’. Mr. Robin Messer knew that Mr Alan Trump had referred to me as a ‘glass half empty type of fellow’ to which Robin simply laughed off. I had however told Mr. Robin Messer part of the problems I was encountering, but kept a lot secret because of his importance to me and hopefully the future development of the site. I was now hoping against hope that my gut feeling about Mr. Alan Trump was wrong. Progress on the site was extremely limited on the site up until the Christmas break 2006. There were only two reasons for this, namely the atrocious weather conditions and Mr. Alan Trump’s obvious delaying tactics. On occasions he would politely ask me how things were going on site. I would simply reply, ‘Nothing Alan, it’s raining’. He in turn would say nothing. This response would dove-tail neatly with his plans.

57. The site at Rhyd-y-fro had an existing thirty degree slope. It was in construction terms a ‘cut and fill’ site. To adhere to building and planning regulations the existing gradient had to be altered massively. This was no easy task. It involved careful management of the soil being removed from the top-half of the site to be added to the bottom of the site at a later date. It had to be stored carefully to avoid it becoming a slurry-like composition. Even the excavation of the soil could only take place on a succession dry days to avoid the material becoming degraded and unusable. The replacement of the material with a like amount of stone would have added hugely to the costs. Mr. Alan Trump was aware of this state of affairs from the very first day and that the excavation it could only be done on a succession of ‘dry days’. He took issue with me over this immediately and told me to ‘send the men home without pay, when nothing was going on’. I said ‘I can’t do that’. I explained to him that it was well within the costs to pay them and that the men would find work elsewhere if he unilaterally was to apply this (his) method to the site.

58. This unresolved issue, eventually resolved itself in Mr. Alan Trump demanding a post-Christmas meeting in March 2007. In the meantime all staff returned to wok at the Rhyd-y-fro site approximately half-way through January 2007. I suspected by this time that I had arrived at the cross-roads with Mr. Alan Trump. I doubted that the New Year would see an improvement in our relationship. Up to this point in time my credit payments and those of my wife had been paid later and later every month (as had all other building bills) to such an extent that our joint credit rating was virtually annihilated. The meeting took place at the same hotel in Bristol. I was present with Mr. Robin Messer. The purpose of his presence was because Mr. Alan Trump was taking issue that a ‘show house hadn’t at that stage been constructed’, and the ‘construction of the main access through the site should not have been undertaken’. Mr. Alan Trump was present with Mr. Martin Harris, who Mr. Alan Trump had earlier deliberately lied to both myself and Mr. Robin Messer was a quantity surveyor but whom I had now learnt from a different source was one of Mr. Alan Trump’s building partners. He had previously brought this gentleman to the site in or about January 2007. I suspected immediately that his reason for doing so was for Mr. Alan Harris to get a feel for the site and to give Mr. Alan Trump a positive indication that he was capable of developing the site after I had been removed from there. My own view and it is pure conjecture at that stage that the Rhyd-y-fro site was to difficult for Mr. Harris to manage alone and could only be achieved with Mr. Robin Messer’s on-going co-operation, and knowledge. I suspected that this is the information that Mr. Harris imparted to Mr. Alan Trump on their return journey to Exeter. This suspicion was well-founded and was to become significant at a later stage.

59. By the time of this meeting the name of Mr. Robin Messer had already become poisoned in the mind of Mr Alan Trump as far as I was concerned. He had first referred to Mr Robin Messer as a ‘wanker’ in my presence when Mr. Robin Messer had given specific details of the type of motor vehicle he sought for the site, namely the Toyota Rav 4. Mr. Alan Trump had shown scant indifference to the idea of acquiring the vehicle until it was seen to become a reality with all costs and details being presented to him. I suspect that whatever car would have been chosen the description of Mr. Robin Messer was not going to change for at approximately £230.00p per month for the lease it was virtually identical to all other cars hat had been mentioned. Mr. Alan Trump was simply intent on picking an argument designed for no other reason than to bully and humiliate me and to undermine my work on the site. During these last few months Mr. Alan Trump wasted no time in telling me that I was finished unless I obeyed his orders to the letter. He derived perverse enjoyment from his now obvious scheme of wrestling the land, deposit and profit on the land from my grasp. It did not end there. His behavior was becoming increasingly unreasonable and erratic, like some cat torturing a captured mouse for an extended period, which it could otherwise have killed in an instant.

60. At the meeting in Bristol Mr. Alan Trump was edgy and agitated from the start. This was very unusual for Mr. Alan Trump in company because in company he was always in control. It became apparent from the beginning that his meeting was for all intents and purposes a sitting of a kangaroo court. My best recollection was that the meeting started in the early evening. Mr. Alan Trump stated that he wanted to discuss the issues mentioned in the preceding paragraph. He handed matters over to Mr. Martin Harris who rattled off a number of reasons why the ‘show-house should have been built. Chief amongst those was easy access to the show house from the existing road of the Waun Penlan estate (without the construction of the main access road and associated main drain) and easy access to the site. That it hadn’t been built showed incompetence of both me and Robin in his view. Mr. Robin Messer having asked for an opportunity to respond to this lengthy diatribe pulled out a list of planning conditions and asked Mr. Martin Harris to read them. In particular to a series of paragraphs already highlighted by Mr. Robin Messer. He read it quietly at first and was then asked to read it out aloud by Mr. Robin Messer. At this stage Mr. Martin Harris became very angry and tried to change the subject.

61. The contents of the paragraph were then read out by Mr. Robin Messer, despite constant interjections by Mr. Martin Harris, who simply refused to acknowledge what was typed on the paper. They stated quite simply: ‘No construction of the dwellings should be started until the main access road was finished up to base course (i.e. fully stoned up and with the base course of tarmac . The only thing left would have been for a “top” or wearing course of tarmac to have been applied which is normal construction practice at the very end of the entire site). The language was clear and precise.

62. Mr. Martin Harris then pulled out a single sheet of A4 paper with a hand sketched drawing which appeared to be cross-section of a road. He then launched into yet another tirade of nonsensical detail of why there was further incompetence being shown on the road base itself. He further accused us jointly of incompetence that the road construction had even been started. This I found to be bizarre as he had already been shown in writing from Neath Port Talbot County Borough Planning Authority why the road had to be constructed first. This was a two-pronged attack was doomed to fail and he knew it due to the cogent explanation given to him over the show-house not being attempted.

63. Mr. Martin Harris claimed that the stone which had been placed on the access road was contaminated with mud by the machines tracking back and forth further into the site. This rant went on for about fifteen minutes and was based on a brief unqualified visual inspection of the Rhyd-y-fro site Mr. Harris was completely ignorant of the extent and purpose of the workings that had taken place on the site. His simplistic and ill-informed approach at the meeting brought a measured and mature reply from Mr. Robin Messer. In response, he calmly explained that due to the incessant rain (approximately three months) it became necessary as a temporary measure to make a stable platform access across the site. This was vital because the heavy machinery had begun to slide alarmingly. With this precautionary measure in place this stable platform would eventually double as an access road and any mud contamination(which would only penetrate the layers of stone in a limited fashion) would be stripped back as needed in readiness for CBR (California breaking ratio) test and also any sample cores that in due course would be taken. The waste was minimal. The stone stripped back would be reused elsewhere in the site in any event. When this was fully explained by Mr. Robin Messer, Mr. Martin Harris simply got angrier. It was now Mr. Martin Harris who was under the spotlight who was being shown up to be incompetent and he knew it. He had a copy of the planning conditions from day one, given to him by Mr. Alan Trump and simply hadn’t bothered to read them. If he had bothered to read them he would have realized that nothing could have taken place on the site without the construction of the road. He had simply been going around in circles. He’d been soberly condemned with words even from his own mouth. Indeed, there was nothing that Mr. Martin Harris could propose that should have been done on the Rhyd-y-fro site that hadn’t been accomplished already. With the weakness of his argument having been so cruelly exposed, Mr. Martin Harris simply gave up. He was and remained for the rest of the meeting a spent force. It was embarrassing.

64. At this juncture Mr. Alan Trump took up the gauntlet and said ‘All I see is incompetence’ ‘The site will close. All work will cease on the site’. Mr. Robin Messer then said at this point ‘We are just wasting our time here’. Mr. Alan Trump had for the first time lost total control of a meeting which had gone along a course he had not planned for. Mr. Harris his first, best and only ‘expert witness’ was shown to be technically out of his depth. Mr. Alan Trump for his part was bereft of any technical knowledge and was the least interested around the table in comprehending and grasping the complexities of the Rhyd-y-fro site. He had no ideas on how progress could be made at the Rhyd-y-fro site. When all else fails, you simply ignore the specifics and talk in meaningless generalities. Mr. Alan Trump had nothing else to offer. There was to be no resounding endorsement for the work to proceed. It was clear to everyone that the game was up.

65. I then said to Mr. Alan Trump ‘We’re wasting our breath. It doesn’t really matter what we say. You are going to shut the site down’. Mr. Alan Trump said nothing. I then said to him that ‘whatever you do to me there are boys on that site that have grafted for you in wind , rain and snow, in atrocious conditions and the least you can do is to pay them what they are owed’. Mr. Alan Trump then enquired ‘Who is owed money’. I gave him the names of Mr. John Spurr, Mr. Stewart McMillan, and Mr. Darryl Bradley. I said to him that I was particularly concerned about Mr. Darryl Bradley being paid because he was quite an elderly employee who absolutely relied on his wages to pay the rent and feed himself and his wife. His take home pay was approximately £170.00p per week. I pointed out to Mr. Alan Trump that this was an insignificant amount of money to him, because he had wasted no time in telling me that he was worth ‘twenty million pounds’. He leaned forward in the chair and said to me ‘I can see that you are worried about Darryl’. I replied ‘Yes Alan I am’. He then looked at Mr. Robin Messer and asked ‘Are you worried about Darryl. Mr. Robin Messer ‘Yes I am’, Darryl lives hand to mouth’. He had done the work and deserves to be paid’. Mr. Alan Trump replied ‘Fair Enough’. He leaned even closer to myself and Mr. Robin Messer and then said ‘As you are so concerned about him, you two fucking pay him’. Even Mr. Martin Harris who had been brought along to publicly expose our ‘alleged incompetence’ was visibly shocked before saying ‘Fucking hell Alan, you can’t do that’. Mr. Alan Trump said nothing. At this point Mr. Robin Messer then got up from the table and said ‘We’re wasting our time’, and we both left. There was nothing else to be said. Mr. Alan Trump had said all that needed to be said. If ever confirmation was needed he had long since ceased to be the concerned, helpful or a willing participant. He had painted his colours firmly to the mast. The following morning the site employees were told by me that all work on the site had ceased and that no wages would be paid. We deserved better treatment.

66. Subsequently, something had caused Mr. Alan Trump to change his mind, albeit temporarily. He got in touch the following day by telephone and said ‘We’ve got things to sort out’ He’d obviously been told that he could not simply abandon the site. I suspect he at least was prepared to accept from Mr. Martin Harris if not advice then a modicum of common sense. Machinery and offices remained on hire. The financial clock was still running and needed to be switched off. The employees on site were needed to shut down the site properly, for another week. The employees at least were no longer going to do further work without money being paid up front, including money owed for work done. There was no delay in paying this money which totaled no more £2000.00p. The machinery was off-hired. Mr. Alan Trump instructed Mr. Robin Messer to leave the site offices in situ. I found this very odd, but the reasons would become clear in due course.

67. After all the employees had been released from the site Mr. Alan Trump again demanded a further meeting. This meeting would take place at a hotel in Exeter. All pretence of any co-operation from Mr. Alan Trump had vanished. He asked me where I saw the site going from here. I said to him ‘I don’t know what you are on about. I can’t see where you are coming from, Alan. He replied, I don’t like Robin and the influence he exerts over you’. ‘It seems to me he has an unhealthy svengali like grip over you’. ‘I want you to run the site on your own’. ‘There’s no need for Robin’. I replied ‘It’s not the case Alan’. I said ‘technically on the site, I was a good second-in-command, but that Robin was indispensable’. He leaned back in his chair and said’ I see, we are getting somewhere now’. He continued ‘Is that your final word that Robin must stay’. To this I replied ‘Yes Alan it is’. Mr. Alan Trump already knew everything about Robin Messer’s role on site from day one, so for him to try and pretend that it was something that he had just learnt from just reinforced in my mind that he planned to defraud me of the deposit and the profits from the site from very first day we met. I asked him what was happening regarding the repayment of my deposit and agreed loans. Mr. Alan Trump said ‘I will have to give it some thought. The meeting ended, knowing full well that his mind was already made up and I would never see the money again. Shortly, after this meeting Mr. Alan Trump made a personal telephone call to Mr. Robin Messer. He was ‘sounding out’ his availability of continuing to manage the site without my involvement in any capacity. It is my belief that Mr. Robin Messer needed me for the smooth continuation of the site and he further asked him what was going to happen to Mr. Morris parents’ money. He replied ‘I will do the right thing by them’. Mr. Alan Trump was buying time.

68. Months passed by. Telephone calls were unanswered. E-mail correspondence was unanswered. My priority was to provide as best as I could a living for myself and my family. All my efforts were channeled to this end. In the meantime Mr. Alan Trump had maintained periodic contact with Mr. Robin Messer. He pointed out to him that there was still outstanding clearance work at the Rhyd-y-fro site which if not done would attract the attention of planning enforcement officers of the Neath and Port Talbot County Borough Council. Mr. Alan Trump authorized the return of some machinery and the removal of spoil that was of no use to the site.. After a further period of time, Mr. Alan Trump instructed him to supervise the dismantling and off-hiring of all the site offices. This was duty completed. I was content for this to be done though in reality I had no influence over the decision making processes. In addition any further wages Mr Robin Messer could gain from Mr. Alan Trump was of no detriment to myself and beneficial only to him. The project was still proceeding along a path of Mr. Alan Trump’s own making.

69. After a period of time it became very clear to me that Mr. Alan Trump had no intention of honouring three outstanding bills in relation to the drainage trade-off with Welsh Water. The trade-off arose in this way. The planning permission for the Rhyd-y-fro site would hinge on whether Welsh Water would allow a new foul sewer connection to the network. The main sewer running though the village was at full capacity and Welsh Water would have objected to the planning permission unless something could be agreed. We arrived at an agreement. A new scheme whereby Oakview Land Limited would identify suitable existing properties whose surface water combined with foul water would enter the foul system only. The company would then at our own expense construct individual soak-aways in the agreed and identified properties and separate out the foul from the surface water thus reducing the burden on the foul system. It was agreed that for every one house we removed from the combined system, five could be built as a trade-off. Mr. Alan Trump knew about the trade-off from the beginning, and it was fully costed. At that stage however he appeared to have no interest or comprehension in the scheme of its impact on the planning permission. It would have been in Mr. Alan Trump’s own words a ‘showstopper’, but its impact on him was negligible. It appeared to be of no real interest to him.

70. I had asked Mr. Alan Trump many months previously (and prior to the second Bristol meeting) to settle these agreed compensation payments, to the individual householders. As with everything else, he dealt with them with impunity. He simply refused to acknowledge let alone pay them. This was a matter of some consternation to me. I had dealt with these residents on a personal level, all of whom were known to me and with whom I had established a good working rapport. The completion of this work only came about after the trust placed in me by one resident, namely, Mr. Jeff Hodge. Having done extensive drainage work on both his front and rear gardens, and the entire drainage system of his house at no expense to him and restored the mature gardens to their former condition, I was then allowed by two further residents who had inspected the work throughout to conduct the same work on their properties. Over time and at the complete satisfaction of all concerned this work was done. A figure of £1500.00 for each of the initial four properties for each of the residents was agreed and outstanding. It was a token sum of money done as a personal favour for me. Had it not been accomplished in this way, just by way of example a figure of £10,000.00p was flatly refused by a resident not known to me personally. I had once again shown my true mettle by agreeing a sum well within the costs for the site, and once again Mr. Alan Trump for reasons best known to himself but which I came to suspect was based on an endemic selfish greed had not paid it. I was devastated. I had an urgent meeting with the four residents and explained to them that I believed Mr. Alan Trump would not pay. I explained that as a last ditch effort I would attempt a further meeting with Mr. Alan Trump to secure payment. To this end I sent him an e-mail. I explained to Mr. Alan Trump carefully and in great detail that if he did not pay the residents they, the residents had agreed jointly for me to reverse the now separated drainage systems to their original combined state. I further explained to him that I would contact Welsh Water to explain the reversal and that in all probability the water company would reinstate their objection to the planning permission which had been granted thereby voiding the permission. Mr. Alan Trump would never tolerate the planning permission being put in jeopardy. The choice for him was stark.

71. He rang me within twenty four hours of receipt of the e-mail. His telephone manner on this occasion was understandably conciliatory. Could he save the show-stopper? Would he be eager to do so? He had finally grasped the gravity of the situation. He said ‘It was never my intention not to pay the residents’, but I did not have their addresses’. (His words were always carefully chosen, and always in the correct order). It was pointless engaging him in another argument. The lines of communication between the three of us, Mr. Nick Morris, Mr. Robin Messer, and Mr. Alan Trump were well-established over a long period of time. They had always remained open. Both myself and Mr. Robin Messer were always on site and easily contactable. I simply said, ‘Alan we need to pay these bills’. He replied, ‘We need to have a meeting in the usual hotel’. We agreed between ourselves that he would pay and gave him the names of the residents who needed paying and I agreed that their addresses would be made available upon handing over of the cheques. I attended the meeting in Bristol with only one purpose in mind.

72. At this meeting my demeanour towards Mr. Alan Trump had changed. He had no real power over me any longer and he sensed it. There was only one person who had been responsible for the irretrievable break-down in our joint partnership/relationship and I was now looking at him across the table. Mr. Alan Trump enquired, ‘How are you feeling Nick?’, ‘How are things going, Nick?’, ‘What work are you doing these days Nick?’ This was now Mr. Alan Trump on his very best behaviour. I replied to Mr. Alan Trump, ‘Have you got the cheques, because if you haven’t, I’m driving straight back down the motorway’. Though momentarily taken back, he recovered his composure in silence and handed over the cheques. I was polite. I thanked him for the cheques and was about to leave when he said ‘We’ve things to discuss’ I replied ‘Fire away, What do you have in mind’. He said ‘It was never my intention for you to have nothing from the site’. I knew Mr. Alan Trump well enough at this stage that what he was saying was utter nonsense or meant the complete reverse. I tended towards the latter. He said, ‘What do you want? Firstly Alan, ‘I need that deposit back’. ‘It’s not yours’. ‘My mother is very ill, she has Parkinsons’s Disease amongst a pile of other ailments. I need to get that money back to them’. Mr. Alan Trump replied, ‘O.K , now we now what we want’. I knew that as I had no leverage over Mr. Alan Trump and that no way was he minded to honour the deal I was treading in a minefield. He replied, ‘O.K, this is what is going to happen Nick. I agree that your parents will have the deposit back. That is not in doubt’. He continued, ‘Also, if I develop the land I will give you a further £35,000.00p’. I suspected that this was utter nonsense as his track record of lies spoke volumes. I said, ‘O.K. Alan’, in a dismissive manner. Mr. Alan Trump immediately picked up on my body language. He said ‘You will have my personal guarantee and a contract. Again, I was dismissive, as I felt that nothing meaningful would materialize. He then said to me ‘What solicitor do you want to use’ ‘Do you want to use ‘Thommo in Swansea(Andrew Thomas of Messrs Roy Thomas Begley & Co.) or OverTaylor(Overly Taylor & Biggs- Mr Alan Trump’s legal company in Exeter). I replied, ‘Whatever you like’. He then said to me that the contract and personal guarantee would be with me within a week. Our business was concluded. We walked out together into the car park. Mr. Alan Trump then said ‘I never meant for any of this t happen’. I just laughed and said ‘O.K Alan’. He then said to me, ‘Do you think that Martin had an agenda’. I said to him ‘I don’t know and I don’t care and it’s not my problem. He works for you’. He said ‘I see’. He then continued, ‘I think he had an agenda’. I said to him ‘Whatever Alan’. The truth behind the statement was that he was trying to buy time and my good offices. In order to do so he tried to put the blame for the closure of the site onto the shoulders of Mr. Martin Harris, because he ‘he had no further work to go onto bar for the work they jointly had underway. He was suggesting to me that it was Mr. Martin Harris who wanted to develop the site. Even if this was true, this would only have taken place with Mr. Alan Trump’s blessing and full support, and furthermore, only under his complete control. Mr. Alan Trump hadn’t had a proper reply from me. His temper was already high over the drainage deal. It had further become heightened over what he perceived to be my stupid question over the original completion of the site. At this moment I could sense from Mr. Alan Trump’s body language and from the venom in his voice a contempt for Mr. Martin Harris. My suspicions were that the relish and force of Mr. Martin Harris’s attack on both me and Mr. Robin Messer had taken even Mr. Alan Trump by surprise and revealed to him our perceived threat to Mr. Martin Harris as a potential rival. I suspected though I said nothing that Mr. Martin Harris would be his next target and victim.

73. The problem for Mr. Alan Trump was that he didn’t fully understand the drainage deal and being the treacherous scorpion that I had come to know he could only see one potential result. The cheques would be cashed and the drainage ripped out. With this in mind and to buy further time he said, ‘What guarantees have I got that as soon as the cheques are cleared that you won’t rip the drainage out’. I replied ‘all you have Alan is my word, and fortunately for you Alan, once Iv’e given my word I keep it’. He then said to me again, ‘You will have the contract and my personal guarantee within a week, and I will e-mail you the details. This was Mr. Alan Trump the skillful operator buying time to find a way around a potential ‘showstopper’. I had the temerity to ask Mr. Alan Ttrump one final question before we parted, ‘Alan ‘why did you do this, Why did you complete on the land’. He replied ‘Why, I’ll tell you why, £585,000.00p for two acres of building land, that’s why’. This was the closest Mr. Alan Trump had ever come to admitting his true purpose for taking the deposit, the land and subsequent profit, lock stock and barrel for himself. When he had got rid of me, what was left was exactly what he was telling me. A piece of land valued by Knight Frank, a national and respected valuer for RBS NatWest at 1.1 million pounds in conjunction with detailed and verified cost producing over £700.000.00p profit, and as a sweetner a ransom strip over an adjacent six acres of potential building land which would be worth one million pounds or more at some point in the future. That ransom strip the final piece of the jigsaw is now his. The treachery and deceitfulness of Mr. Alan Trump was in substance complete. His remaining ploy was to keep me ‘on ice’ so he could find a permanent solution to the drainage problem. His promises, his representations to me upon which I placed total reliance had been plunged into an abyss. Those promises and representations were simply a devious tactic by Mr. Alan Trump to buy time. The overwhelming greed and fraudulent conduct of Mr. Alan Trump was finally exposed. We then went our separate ways. The cheque payments were then processed in the normal way by the respective residents.

74. His normal routine with me was once again set in motion. Nothing arrived for a period of weeks. This is what I had expected. Mr. Alan Trump was becoming predictable. I finally e-mailed Mr. Alan Trump to ask him if there was anything amiss. He replied by e-mail to confirm that ‘there was nothing wrong, just busy that’s all’. In this first e-mail he again re-iterated the return of the £65,000.00p deposit and the additional £35,000.00p. However, he had sutbly changed the content of our agreement. The personal guarantee had vanished. He just agreed the return of the two payment above, and not in the timely fashion that we had spoken about and personally from him, but suddenly conditional upon the sale or full development of the site. I knew once again this was a ruse from Mr. Alan Trump to buy more time. Now, a period of years would elapse whilst he kept me neatly at bay, at his mercy and afraid to do anything to the drainage for fear of Mr. Alan Trump cancelling his ‘new deal’. Needless to say despite several e-mail reminders and phone calls to this day some two years later (September 2009) no contract has ever been received. No personal guarantee has ever been given. Any doubts I had in my dealings with Mr. Alan Trump had become fully crystallized by the time of our last meeting. They were all well-founded. I was by now completely vindicated.

75. In all my efforts and dealings as a house builder in Graig Newydd I had dealt properly with decent, hardworking people to bring to realization a project which will remain a permanent feature of the landscape. I attracted competent professional people to give of their time and expertise to achieve this ultimate goal. Chief amongst these was the architect Mr. Huw Griffiths.
He was always transparent with his professional fees and their calculation. He had now begun work to gain planning permission for the Rhyd-y-fro site before Mr. Alan Trump had become involved. To this end and as a crucial factor in the costs as required by RBS NatWest bank he provided with his fees and a breakdown before the serious business of obtaining planning permission proceeded. They added up to £65,000.00p and were fully approved by the bank’s own quantity surveyor. It was an obvious expense detailed in the costs document and available for all to see. It was pointed out to Mr. Alan Trump on several occasions in particular at a meeting at the Swansea branch of RBS NatWest bank. He had copies of the costs document and had ample opportunity to raise any objection to what was set out therein. He made no objection to anything in the costs document at any time. When he first staged payment of approximately £20,000.00p was due to Mr. Huw Griffiths, Mr. Alan Trump phoned me. There were no pleasantries. He got straight to the point. ‘What the fuck is this architect’s bill’. I realized that with everything else with Mr. Alan Trump, this was going to be a serious problem. I reminded him again and as carefully as I could that the work was fully covered in the costs and that he had agreed to it. He said to me ‘Why do I not know about this’. ‘I could have got this work done for under half of this price’. I reminded him again that we had had lengthy conversations about the matter. He would then say ‘I know nothing about this’. This was laughable if it were not so serious. I told him ‘The bill needs paying’ Mr Alan Trump made no promises that the bill would be paid nor that it wouldn’t be paid. This telephone conversation took place at the site in Rhyd-y-fro in the presence of Mr. Robin Messer. He was disturbed at this turn of events because the only reason that Mr. Huw Griffiths had allowed to reach that level without payment was that he was trying to help our cash flow situation and had had a personal and professional relation of many years standing with Mr. Robin Messer. He trusted him implicitly. Mr. Alan Trump had already worked this out for himself. He would allow bills to be incurred on our personal reputation and simply when called upon refuse to pay it. Mr. Robin Messer felt it necessary to step in to talk with Mr. Alan Trump personally and believe that he pointed out to him that the completed site drawings were under copyright to Mr. Huw Griffiths until fully paid for. Mr Alan trump then spoke to me again on the matter after this conversation, on my mobile phone informing me that as far as he was concerned Mr. Robin Messer was having a ‘slice of the cake’, ‘a large ‘backhander from Huw Griffiths, Robin and Huw were not to be trusted’. He was very angry. He was put in a position of having to pay the staged payments or risk the planning permission folding because we had no ownership of the drawing upon which the planning permission was based on’. Mr. Alan Trump paid the staged payments. I suspected strongly that this would be the first and last payment to Mr. Huw Griffiths. It proved to be so. Mr. Robin Messer had raised a ‘legal technicality’ of which Mr. Alan Trump was uncertain of. The payment was made to buy time for him to check out his position. During the ensuing years, Mr. Alan Trump simply ignored Mr. Huw Griffiths his legitimate requests for payment. When Mr. Huw Griffiths believing that he was left with no other option than to institute legal proceedings for its recovery, Mr. Alan trump responded that he would drive Swansea for a meeting to discuss the bill with Mr. Huw Griffiths. He verbally agreed with Mr. Huw Griffiths to settle the account on drastically reduced terms. As usual he blamed others, particularly myself for the premature termination of the site and the position he now found himself in having to ‘pick up the pieces’. Mr. Huw Griffiths was minded to accept, to wipe his mouth of this sour deal in order for him to pay his own bills and his professional colleagues who had on his instructions immersed themselves in this contracted. Mr. Alan Trump readily agreed to settle this bill within a week or two. The bill remains outstanding to this day. When Mr. Huw Griffiths eventually realized that even the new reduced bill would not be paid, he again wrote to Mr. Alan Trump and that he would take court action against him. It is my firm belief that his solicitors then wrote back to Mr. Huw Griffiths quite simply stating that ‘another entity’ appeared to owe him money. Upon checking the original contract again they claimed that the payment due to him had never been agreed by Oakview Land Limited, and that any agreement he had was with Oakview Horizons Limited, a company over which Mr. Alan Trump had no involvement. Mr Alan Trump, having now bought enough time, his legal team had now found a chink in the contract which would exonerate him from any further payment. He would proceed on this basis regardless of his moral obligation to pay and his full approval of the bill and his verbal representations to Mr. Huw Griffiths. He was cast adrift by Mr. Alan Trump. Mr. Huw Griffiths as a last resort is now pursuing Mr. Alan Trump through the courts for the recovery of a sum of approximately £45,000.00p for services provided at the site in Rhyd-y-fro. Mr. Alan Trump’s actions had spoken for him once again.

76. Yet another example of Mr. Alan Trump’s treachery involved Mr. Brian Perman, a structural engineer with whom I and Mr. Robin Messer had a long-standing professional relationship. He had as a personal favor to the Mr. robin Messer slotted in his busy schedule a detailed list of calculations and accompanying drawings for the ‘drainage run at the Rhyd-y-fro site. His bill came to approximately £3000.00p. Mr. Alan Trump simply ignored it, despite repeated requests to pay. Several years have now passed and I believe that Mr. Brian Perman has written the money off as a bad debt. Over a course of a period of time I attempted to secure payment for both Mr. Brian Perman and Mr. Huw Griffiths. In one memorable e-mail Mr. Alan Trump said he would ‘do the right thing buy them’. He has of course done nothing.

77. The last two e-mails I sent to Mr. Alan Trump were designed to bring closure for myself. For the first time, I adopted a pro-active stance in my dealings with Mr. Alan Trump. The first e-mail would test the integrity and honesty of Mr. Alan Trump. He had never said to me that he would not the return the £65,000.00p deposit. In the last few months I had developed a keen interest through an investment analyst on the possibility of trading an on-line options account. This new risk management business venture had possibilities which in a short time I became fully conversant with. I informed Mr. Alan Trump that if he were to use the £65,000.00p that he was going to return to me as collateral and open in his own name and fully under his control a stock-broking account, I was willing to trade that sum up to £130,000.00. Were I to be successful at that point we would split the account 50:50, thus Mr. Alan Trump would have used the deposit which wasn’t his to generate a sum equal to the deposit. If I were to fail I would fully take the losses upon myself and Mr. Alan Trump would lose nothing. It was a proposition so utterly reasonable as to be a ‘no-brainer’. The only reason possible that he would reject a one-sided deal in his favour was that he would have no intention of paying the money back in the first place. I suspected that he would not give me any reply at all. Nothing was forthcoming. I had my answer.

78. My second e-mail to Mr. Alan Trump would in addition to his contractual obligation test his moral obligation to return the deposit of £65,000.00p I explained to him that my mother’s health had deteriorated and that experimental brain surgery costing £30,000.00p was one of her few chances to attempt to deal with the tremors brought on by her advancing Parkinson’s Disease. I also sent him a video link discussing the experimental surgery. He did not even dignify this e-mail with a response. The door was slammed shut in my face for all time.

79 After the shutting down of the site and at just before he came to visit Mr. Huw Griffiths in Swansea an approach had been made to Mr. Robin Messer by a development company interested in purchasing the site at Rhyd-y-fro. Their offer was 1.1 million pounds. Mr. Alan Trump pretended to play along with his sum of money, even offering Mr. Robin Messer, a one per cent success fee. However, when the deal became a reality, Mr. Alan Trump revised his purchase price upwards to 1.2 million. This excellent deal was scuppered. When asked by Mr. Robin Messer why he was now changing the purchase price, Mr. Alan Trump had pretended that he ‘did not know anything about the original purchase deal which was £650,000.00p to Mr. Helmut Peshman and twenty-three payments of £5000.00p as and when each house was constructed and sold. This was a blatant lie. This cost was integral to the original sale of which he was fully appraised of. In the offices of Swansea-based solicitor Mr. Andrew Thomas, who had opened on a Saturday morning to accommodate a meeting with Mr. Alan Trump, he was further told of the details of the deal and given copies of the contract by him and then signed the contract with myself before completion. Mr. Alan Trump once again had found an excuse to prolong settling the bills that were owed by blaming somebody else other than himself. His reasoning to Mr. Robin Messer was ‘it was a bad deal done by Nick’. It was yet another ruse by Mr. Alan Trump to give the impression he was moving things forward hopefully now with Mr. Robin Messer in tow.

80. He instructed Mr. Robin Messer to open negotiations with Mr. Helmut Peshman and his advisers for a ‘lump sum’ settlement, a one-off reduced payment instead of the £115,000.00( instead of the (23X £5000.00p). this was Mr. Alan Trump solution to the so-called ‘bad deal done by Nick’ which he knew nothing about. The reality was of course that I had discussed in detail with him my intention after completion of returning to the negotiating table with Mr. Helmut Peshman to discuss this issue. To this end I had spoken of my intentions with Mr Barry Evans and Mr. Robin Messer. It was amazing to me how he apparently knew nothing about this deal on the one hand but could suddenly not only remember but pass off as his own idea a workable solution mirroring the exact one we had discussed. His audacity was breathtaking. It was a farce. The arrangement was subsequently drawn up, but Mr. Alan Trump prevaricated for so long before signing that despite repeated warnings to him that Mr. Peshman’s wif had died and he himself was in extremely poor health that Mr. Pehman died before the agreement was signed. The situation remains as far as I am aware unresolved. The parting of any money from the grip of Mr. Alan Trump was at the very heart of the prevarication even to the point where he had worked out that if he constructed all of the houses and rented them out as opposed t selling them he would never have to pay the twenty-three times five thousand pounds because they were conditional on the sale of the properties. Mr. Alan Trump mind was in overdrive to evade an agreed payment once again. His thought processes were simple. How do I get out of this? How do I buy time? Part of the process was also to keep Mr. Robin Messer actively involved in the site.

80. The ransom strip which I have touched on briefly revealed the true extent of the ruthlessness of Mr. Alan Trump. At the point of completion of the site our by now joint solicitor Mr. Andrew Thomas told me that the ransom strip that had been purchased to gain access to the Rhyd-y-fro site had been incorrectly applied to the deal in the following fashion. Instead of the strip of land only covering the Rhyd-y-fro site, Mr. David Jones a solicitor representing the interests of Mr. Helmut Peshman had mistakenly transferred too much land in to the contract. A further piece of land was transferred which was now effectively a ransom strip over Mr. Helmut Peshman’s remaining six acres which would ultimately and in all probability fall within the Unitary development Plan of the Neath and Port Talbot County borough Council. I spoke to Mr. Alan trump regarding the matter. His immediate response was, It’s a big mistake, he ‘s not having that back’. A short while later a further conversation with Mr. Andrew Thomas and he said that Mr. David Jones had realized his mistake and had asked for the extra piece of land back. I already knew what the answer was due to my earlier conversation with Mr. Alan Trump, and I told him the answer was no. I was in no doubt that a bad mistake had been made by Mr. David Jones. In a further conversation with Mr. Alan Trump I pointed out to him that the situation which had unfolded ‘did not sit well with me’, that Mr. Helmut Peshman was a very elderly man whose wife was dying of cancer and that the transfer was a mistake. He asked me how much the ransom strip was worth. I told him that if he worked on the current land price of £550.000.00p per acre then under the ‘Cambridge ruling’ (a guideline for ransom strips) it would be worth over one million pounds. He told me at this point that he was not having the ransom strip back and ‘go and open negotiations at £36,000.00p for the entire six acres with Mr. Helmut Peshman. This I did. However, unsurprisingly I got nowhere. The subject was consequently dropped. Neither solicitor had any instructions.

81. The multi-millionaire that is Mr. Alan Trump attacks his prey geographically. He appeared at first to be a sophisticated, charming, polite and helpful individual. Behind this artificial veneer lies a thoroughly dishonest, selfish, deceitful, dangerous and ruthless man who uses his wealth both as a weapon of attack and occasionally as a defensive shield to financially destroy people of whatever rank, station or distinction, and to do so with gratuitous distain and impunity for his own financial gain. It is Mr. Alan Trump, who best describes himself as ‘the iron fist in the velvet glove’. No accolade is better deserved. To all right thinking people he is a totally discredited individual.

82. Mr. Alan Trump has a case to answer for fraud. I am at the very least entitled to know whether Mr. Alan Trump has an explanation to each and every detail set out above, whether his defence is a simple case of denial, or whether something more sinister is at play. I am confident that when this is properly tested initially by a thorough police investigation a prima facie case for prosecution by the Crown Prosecution Service will remain intact. I am content if so advised for this draft statement to be converted into a full police statement under caution.

83. Although I am fully at risk from my personal guarantee which remains hanging over my head I have been removed unilaterally as company secretary from Oakview Land Limited and without my express permission or consultation by Mr. Alan trump. He has not given me any explanation for this. I have been erased from the company, any decision-making process and ownership is fully Mr. Alan Trump’s. I have been left exposed to the money now owed on the land to RBS Natwest. There appears to be nothing I can do about this. In the mind of Mr. Alan Trump I was simply an inconsequential speck of dust which he crushed in 2006. I simply no longer exist. He refuses to respond to any communication written or verbal.

84. My summary of the fraud is as follows.

(a)Mr. Alan Trump’s intention from the outset was to relieve me of the land at Rhyd-y-fro and all that it entailed, namely
1. £65,000.00p deposit
2. The uplift in the value of the land if planning permission was granted
3. The entire profits from the site
4. The projected future profits due from the acquired ransom strip
5. The NHBC full builder registration.
6. The expertise of the entire workforce of Oakview Land Limited

(b) At this first meeting when I broached the subject of my wife’s and I potential bankruptcy or an IVA and the placing of the remaining 50% shareholding in my parents name, Mr. Alan Trump’s immediately talked me out of it with a promise that he would clear all the loans conditional on planning permission being granted. I believed at the time that he was being a ‘white knight’ as he always called himself, but now realize that he needed those shares to remain in my name to extract the maximum pressure, to relieve me of them at the appropriate moment. That moment arrived when he told me on reflection he did not have enough security to clear the loans with only 50%of the site.

(c) Had the shares been transferred to my parents Mr. Alan Trump would have been unable to exert the pressure on them that he was able to exert on me. Quite simply they would never have even contemplated handing over the 50% shareholding. By the time he acquired the second and final portion I was so brow beaten by Mr Alan Trump that his word was gospel and to be obeyed implicitly and without

(d) At this first meeting Mr. Alan Trump represented to me that all the loans would be paid in full. He did not waver from that position until planning permission was granted. It was at this point that his real scheming and deceit started to take shape, and manifested itself in the first instance with the removal of a former trusted friend and colleague in Mr. Barry Evans.

(d) At this meeting and repeatedly throughout our relationship Mr. Alan Trump constantly told me that ‘meeting me will be the best thing that has ever happened to you. I am going to teach you how to skin a turd’. You are going to make a lot of money. This was a tissue of lies.

(e) One of Mr. Alan Trump’s favourite statements which I first heard at the first meeting and I suspected a rhetorical one was ‘We don’t need to know the answers just the questions. I believed that this meant that once the planning permission was granted any details would be ironed out. The question was in fact for himself - ‘How do I completely relieve this man of the land and the company’. The answers would be worked out along the way by the conduct of Mr. Alan Trump

(f) My estimation of Mr. Alan Trump’s gain at the time of the fraud is as follows:-
(1) The up-lift in the land was approximately £500.00.00p
(2) The profit in th subsequent construction was approximately £700.000.00p
(3) The profit in the ransom strip was approximately one million pounds

This represented a total fraudulent gain to Mr. Alan Trump stood at 2.2 million pounds. It must have seen like taking candy from a baby for a sophisticated fraudster such as Alan Trump.

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