Documentary to look at lost millions of Scots tycoon impaled outside Marylebone home

The wife of a former Dundee businessman who died after plunging four storeys onto railings outside his plush West London townhouse is to appear on a new BBC documentary programme this week claiming that his death was not an accident as she battles to receive the millions awarded to her after the longest divorce battle in British legal history.

Scot Young, 52, the son of former Dundee United footballer Duncan Young, was said to be worth £800 million and counted some of the UK’s most successful businessmen among his friends, including disgraced ex-BHS boss Philip Green.

He died in 2014 shortly after a £400 million divorce battle that saw ex-wife Michelle, who is the mother of Mr Young’s two children, eventually awarded £26 million in a settlement.

During the original divorce proceedings, Mr Young was jailed for six months for refusing to disclose his finances to the courts or to pay maintenance to Michelle.

He eventually declared himself bankrupt, a process that was overseen by London-based accountancy firm Grant Thornton.

It was claimed that Mr Young had not only lost his entire fortune overnight in a big Russian property deal, but had also had a breakdown and was having an affair.

To this day Michelle has never received a penny of the £26m settlement.

Having at one time enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, she now lives in a two-bedroom basement flat in London and tells the documentary, to be aired on BBC 2 tomorrow night at 9pm, that she is still searching for her slice of his missing millions.

Her crusade against her ex-husband has seen her clock up 65 court hearings and 13 sets of lawyers, and 11 years on she maintains that Mr Young did not jump to his death but was murdered.

A 2015 inquest into his death found there was insufficient evidence to conclude his death was a suicide and friends of the entrepreneur, who was the fifth member of a close circle of friends to die in similar circumstances, said they feared he may have been killed by the Russian or Turkish mafia after getting into debt, citing the strange deaths of four associates, including Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who was found hanged in 2013.

Millionaires’ Ex-Wives Club will be broadcast on BBC Two at 9pm.