Property tycoon Nicholas Hoogstraten, jailed for ten years over the killing of a business rival, now has his own website.

The millionaire property magnate, currently detained in Belmarsh high security prison, is the subject of a new site created by a supporter.

Hoogstraten, sentenced to ten years for manslaughter, maintains he had no involvement in the death of Mohammed Raja in 1999.

The new website a "fit-up" of the tycoon.

It states: "The multi-millionaire international businessman and financier Nicholas Hoogstraten is entirely innocent of any involvement with the 1999 murder of the former slum bedsit landlord Mohammed Sabir Raja.

"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. His only criminal offences were some thirty-plus years previously, and were the product of a bizarre set of circumstances not dissimilar to the subject case."

Hoogstraten has had a series of brushes with the law. In 1968 he was jailed for four years for two counts of demanding money with menaces and criminal damage by an explosion.

On Hoogstraten's command, someone threw a hand grenade into a rabbi's house at Chatsworth Road, Brighton.

Later that year, he was convicted of a further eight charges of dishonesty and handling and received three years in prison.

In 1972, he received another jail term of 15 months for corrupting prison officers.

Then, in July 1979, he was found guilty of assault causing actual bodily harm on a bailiff.

The web site continues: "Nicholas was a well known public figure of great wealth, cosmopolitan, intelligent, cultured and articulate - the very antithesis of Raja."

It says Hoogstraten was found not guilty of murder but convicted of manslaughter at the Old Bailey after a "sensational and bizarre 13-week trial".

It adds: "Nicholas has been wrongly convicted in what must rank as one of the most outrageous miscarriages of justice in recent years."

Hoogstraten, 58, was convicted of manslaughter while two drug addicts, David Croke and Robert Knapp, were found guilty of murder.

The web site makes allegations about people involved in the trial who achieved what it says was a wrongful conviction. They include police officers and lawyers.

After giving details of the trial, the web site says more information will be posted shortly. It mentions the forthcoming appeal by Hoogstraten against his conviction for manslaughter.

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