A website supporting millionaire killer Nicholas Hoogstraten has been taken off-line after complaints from the family of a murdered businessman.

Hoogstraten's former wife Caroline Williams registered the internet pages www.nicholasvanhoogstraten.com last month.

The site gave Hoogstraten's account of the death of "slum bedsit landlord" Mohammed Sabir Raja and the Old Bailey trial in which Hoogstraten was eventually convicted of the grandfather's manslaughter.

It said the tycoon was the victim of a "fit-up".

The author declared: "Nicholas was a well-known public figure of great wealth, cosmopolitan, intelligent, cultured and articulate."

But solicitors for Mr Raja's family took action after reading about the web site in The Argus.

A spokesman said: "The site has now been suspended by the Internet Service Provider in the light of its defamatory material and our complaints about its content.

"Our investigation into who purchased the domain name revealed it was Caroline Williams."

Ms Williams continues to run many of Hoogstraten's businesses while he is locked up at Belmarsh Prison in London.

She was unavailable for comment yesterday.

The website was also off-line. A simple message read: "Account for domain nicholasvanhoogstraten.com has been suspended."

Before being taken off-air, the site proclaimed: "Fair to say, Nicholas was no easy touch and actively promoted his own colourful reputation as a no-nonsense landlord and ruthless businessman.

"However, Nicholas had an impeccable record for honesty and reliability in his business activities."

Hoogstraten was jailed for ten years for the unlawful killing of Raja, who was shot and stabbed to death by two men sent by him.

The murderers, David Croke and Robert Knapp, were both imprisoned for life.

The web site described the trio's 13-week trial as "sensational and bizarre" and noted: "Nicholas has been wrongly convicted in what must rank as one of the most outrageous miscarriages of justice in recent years."

There were allegations about the fairness of the trial, the police investigation and Hoogstraten's own legal team.

Hoogstraten continues to protest his innocence and has been given leave to appeal against his conviction.

However, he was refused bail at a hearing earlier this year.

The civil litigation between Hoogstraten and Mr Raja's family, led by son Amjad, is also still on-going in the High Court.