Thanks to David Keen for another excellent roundup on the sad and sorry saga of the former SPCK Bookshops: well worth reading if you want a quick update on how things are panning out.
If he wasn't such a crook, I could almost feel sorry for J Mark Brewer. But he is a crook, and a prize plonker too if he thinks he's going to get away with all this: with the likes of Matt Wardman on his trail he's about as safe as a criminal being chased down by Inspector Poirot.
Interesting developments in Exeter too, which David seems to have missed from his roundup: now trading as GemStar Jewellery and Gifts, premises now owned by Messrs Anton and Joseph Lampo who bought the site for the princely sum of £507,000 back in September.
The Land Registry filing for the premises indicates the existence of "restrictive covenants" in place but doesn't tell us what those covenants consist of. Not exactly difficult to work out, though: Brewer tried to auction the premises earlier in the year but was scuppered by those covenants... which now seem to be comprehensively breached. So how, exactly, did he get away with making this sale? Scenes of dodgy dealings at the back door come to mind...
See the comments on 'Welcome to GemStar Jewellery and Gifts, Exeter' for relevant links, and Exeter: The Inside (Incomplete) Story: Part 1 and Part 2 for more background.
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>safe as a criminal being chased down by Inspector Poirot.
Shurely Shome Mishtake?
I'm hoping that's he wrong way round?
Je ne compris pas, Monsieur le Wardhomme. Le Inspecteur Poirot, he always gets his homme, n'est ce pas?? Vous aussi!
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