A property developer has been found guilty of blackmailing a Devon businessman who he believed had swindled him out of £200,000. Gary Wood hired a group of heavies to deliver a sinister message to the Budleigh Salterton based entrepreneur.
He told Exeter Crown Court he believed he had been the target of a deliberate fraud in which a businessman from Budleigh Salterton played a leading part. Wood is on trial accused of hiring a group of