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  • Inside are snapshots of ransacked bureau drawers on the floor, pawed-over clothes, a back door with its dead-bolt assembly forcibly removed.

    Nightmare on Sunset Shnayerson, Michael 2005

  • Inside are snapshots of ransacked bureau drawers on the floor, pawed-over clothes, a back door with its dead-bolt assembly forcibly removed.

    Nightmare on Sunset Shnayerson, Michael 2005

  • In a decision which will be pawed-over anxiously by the wealthy and their advisers, three judges expressed 'some sympathy' for Mr Gaines-Cooper - but ruled that he had never qualified for exemption from UK taxes as a non-resident.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • In a decision which will be pawed-over anxiously by the wealthy and their advisers, three judges expressed 'some sympathy' for Mr Gaines-Cooper - but ruled that he had never qualified for exemption from UK taxes as a non-resident.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

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