Police to revisit death of Scots businessman in wake of spy poisoning  

The poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury this month has led police to reopen the case of the death of former Dundee businessman Scot Young, who died aged 52 after plunging four storeys onto railings outside his plush West London townhouse in 2014.

A 2015 inquest into his death found there was insufficient evidence to conclude his death was a suicide and friends of the entrepreneur, who was the fifth member of a close circle of friends to die in similar circumstances, said they feared he may have been killed by the Russian or Turkish mafia after getting into debt, citing the strange deaths of four associates, including Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who was found hanged in 2013.

Mr Young was part of a group of business people known as the Cipriani Five, all of whom died between 2010 and 2014, with one found hanged, two others jumped in front of trains at separate times and one leapt to his death from the roof a shopping centre.

Mr Young’s ex-wife, Michelle, has always maintained that her husband was murdered, and has welcomed news that the case is one of 14 to be re-opened to establish if foul play was involved.

Mrs Young believes that her former husband used tax havens to hide his wealth, and that he was murdered by associates when he sought to retrieve money he had hidden with them.

Mrs Young recently appeared on a new BBC documentary programme where she restated her claims that his death was not an accident as she battles to receive the millions awarded to her after the longest divorce battle in British legal history.

To this day Michelle has never received a penny of the £26m settlement that resulted from the legal saga.

Having at one time enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, she now lives in a two-bedroom basement flat in London and she told the BBC that she is still searching for her slice of his missing millions.

She believes that her husband’s fortune, estimated to be close to £1bn, remains in offshore trusts and investments, spread across Liechtenstein, Switzerland and the British Virgin Islands and is seeking its return.

The son of former Dundee United footballer Duncan Young was said to be worth £800 million and counted some of the UK’s most successful businessmen among his friends, including disgraced ex-BHS boss Philip Green.