Squatters occupy luxury spa and hotel, plan to establish a 'micro nation' in Wales

By Astha Saxena, News Reporter

The edifice was erstwhile owned by Men Behaving Badly prima Neil Morrissey (Image: Getty)

Squatters person reportedly occupied a luxury spa and edifice and claimed they program to crook it into a “micro nation”.

The £300 per nighttime edifice was erstwhile owned by Men Behaving Badly prima Neil Morrissey earlier it went bankrupt successful 2021 owed to ongoing fiscal problems.

According to the locals, the radical of trespassers, led by Tom Wilkinson, took implicit the 21-room edifice successful Laugharne, Wales, and reportedly began hosting chaotic late-night parties with friends arriving successful minibuses.

Tom Wilkinson claims that his actions are aimed astatine preserving a portion of history, suggesting that his efforts volition beryllium truthful singular they volition marque the fable of Robin Hood look believable by comparison.

The once-luxurious hotel, present nether occupation, has seen its entranceway roped disconnected and its signage defaced, reflecting the disruption caused by the squatters.

According to Companies House, the existent proprietor of the spot is Upper Street Holdings, a institution based successful the Seychelles.

The radical purchased the edifice successful 2022 for nether £20,000, a amazingly debased terms for specified a location, perchance owed to its information oregon fiscal struggles.

They person since undertaken ineligible enactment with Llanelli County Court to unit the squatters out, naming sanction “Mr Thomas Wilkinson AKA Tom Walk and persons unknown” arsenic the defendants successful the case.

In response, Wilkinson posted an representation of the assertion signifier connected his Facebook leafage alongside a rant successful which helium claimed helium is readying a 'counter claim' of £250,000 against the owners for “security costs alone”.

He posted: “They truly person gone and enactment their ft successful it. Just connected information costs alone, my counterclaim comes to £250,000. £25 an hr x3 for 24 hours a time x5 months. If we added renovation costs, attraction and cleaning to the measure the claimant would fundamentally beryllium paying me.”

Speaking to The Sun, Sandra Flaxman, 75, who runs a adjacent campsite claimed she had been forced to padlock her ablution and toilet facilities, alleging this was due to the fact that Wilkinson and his chap squatters had been secretly utilizing them.

She claimed that helium had been driving his car up and down her lane to marque her consciousness “intimidated”.