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Michael Stainer guilty of ripping off staff and to be sentenced on July 8.

May 20, 2022 // 14 Comments

Michael Stainer [74] who cheated his employees and the taxman out of £473,097.07 while running The Grand is facing jail. Michael Stainer (pictured), 74, trousered the [...]

Stainer Trial – Jury retires after 14 days of evidence

May 17, 2022 // 2 Comments

After 14 days of deliberations in the case of The Queen v Doris & Michael Stainer (pictured below), the jury have retired to consider the evidence. In all seven witnesses [...]

Day 2: Stainer Trial at Southwark Crown Court

May 4, 2022 // 5 Comments

The second day of the Southwark Crown Court Trial of Michael and Doris Stainer (pictured below) saw HMRC’s Prosecuting Counsel Anthony Hucklesby present the jury with the [...]

Stainer Trial begins

May 3, 2022 // 2 Comments

The trial of Michael & Doris Stainer begun today 03.05.22, at Southwark Crown Court with the swearing in of the jury, and the trial proper beginning tomorrow. The case is [...]

See ya tomorrow Mikey

May 2, 2022 // 2 Comments

The trial of `Michael and Doris Stainer commences tomorrow, Tuesday May 3rd at Southwark Crown Court before HH Judge Perrins. The charges were first described in detail in a [...]

Criminal Charges against Michael & Doris Stainer revealed.

June 29, 2021 // 14 Comments

Exclusive We can now reveal the full extent of the criminal charges brought against Michael and Doris Stainer (pictured below) as presented in Westminster Magistrates Court [...]

The End of an Era @ The Grand, Folkestone

June 26, 2021 // 10 Comments

Determined as ever, and undeterred by the refusal of District Judge Luthfur Rahman in Canterbury County Court on June 17th, to halt the June 22nd auction of the Grand itself, [...]

Doris Stainer faces arrest for Crown Court No Show.

May 6, 2021 // 5 Comments

Doris Stainer (pictured), wife of Michael Stainer, is facing arrest after failing to return to the UK from Germany, according to the latest report in Court News UK. Her [...]

Michael & Doris Stainer Charged with Fraud

May 1, 2021 // 5 Comments

Michael and Doris Stainer (pictured below) have been charged with failing to pay income tax and national insurance contributions amounting to over £400,000 under two [...]

Where’s the Money Gone, Mikey?

March 23, 2021 // 4 Comments

Who says we don’t make a difference? Within days of our article “Covid-19 Grant Fraud at the Grand as Council demands its money back” , Folkestone and Hythe Council [...]

A Grand Identity Crisis

March 21, 2021 // 7 Comments

So, who has really been in charge at the Grand since Michael Stainer ‘stepped down’ after his November 2018 bankruptcy? For a brief period, until he was unceremoniously [...]

Stainer Goes Bust and his Staff Turn on Him

March 10, 2021 // 5 Comments

“When it gets bad, it gets really bad.” That might sum up Michael Stainer today as he stares into his reality mirror. He might not do this very often, but in the last few [...]

Buyer Beware!

February 23, 2021 // 8 Comments

Any lingering doubts about the survival of Michel Stainer’s Grand empire disappeared on Saturday afternoon. For two hours, process servers acting for the administrators of [...]

The Rise and Fall of the Stainer Empire

December 26, 2020 // 5 Comments

Hallam Estates Ltd – born 14 December 1995, died – 17 December 2020. The High Court read the last rites last Thursday but the issuing of the order makes it 100% official, [...]

Breaking News: The Owners of the Grand put into Administration

December 17, 2020 // 12 Comments

At 17.15 this afternoon, in the High Court in London, the Honourable Mr Justice Snowden (pictured), put Hallam Estates Ltd, owners of the Grand since 1996 into [...]

The Fall of the Stainer Empire: Part 1

December 7, 2020 // 3 Comments

On October 13th, the two flagship suites at the heart of the Stainer holiday-let business went under the hammer at London auctioneers Barnard Marcus. The sale should have [...]

Grant Fraud at The Grand?

November 28, 2020 // 1 Comment

As time runs out on Hallam Estates, owners of the Grand, we hear of yet another cause for anxiety for its director Robert Moss (below left) , and shadow director Michael [...]

Message from HQ: Time to Stop Digging?

September 26, 2020 // 7 Comments

Updated Feb 8 2021 @16:32 What would make a good week for Michael Stainer? How about one in which three court cases don’t go against you. Or try this: one in which the [...]

The lady says no – and she’s not for turning…

September 14, 2020 // 8 Comments

Imagine how Amanda Blanc, appointed Aviva’s Chief Executive in July this year, would feel if she woke up to find that her insurer had refused to insure her home, and that [...]

Stainer sent packing (again) in Tribunal humiliation

August 14, 2020 // 9 Comments

Update: 27 May 2021 @13:00 The latest full determination in a six-year saga of defeats in Tribunal and High Court hearings, was published on 11th August. The owners of the [...]

A Gaping Gap at the Grand

July 17, 2020 // 4 Comments

Almost five year after the infamous dawn raid that saw Michael and Doris Stainer and their general manager arrested, Robert Richardson has finally abandoned the beleaguered [...]

The Dog (HMRC) Ate My Homework

June 28, 2020 // 2 Comments

How many times when a schoolboy at Bedford School did Michael Stainer use the excuse “the dog ate my homework”? We will never know, but we do know that he has been using [...]

Revealed: Michael Stainer Owes The Taxman £1.1 million

June 23, 2020 // 7 Comments

When Michael Stainer, Doris Stainer and Robert Richardson were arrested in July 2015, they were held in custody for approximately nine hours. Stainer described the dawn raid [...]

Knock, knock: bailiffs at the door is no joke

June 6, 2020 // 5 Comments

In yet another twist in the tortured tale of Michael Stainer’s activities, bailiffs turned up at the Grand on Thursday 4th June. They were looking for the “owners” or [...]

The Great Escape: the Remake

May 14, 2020 // 3 Comments

As Michael Stainer (again) and Hallam Estates, the company he set up in 1995 to keep control of the Grand, both slide towards insolvency under the burden of £500,000 of [...]

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