THIS is the grand £6.75million mansion PPE tycoons Sarah and Richard Stoute bought on the back of their £1.8billion government Covid deal.
The eight-bedroom pile they snapped up mortgage-free boasts a cinema, gym and sauna, a dancefloor with bar and nearly 20 acres of grounds with two lakes.
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Terry HarrisPPE tycoons bought this grand £6.75million mansion on the back of their £1.8billion government Covid deal[/caption]
Their firm Full Support Health-care was awarded a £1.8billion PPE contract by the Government to supply tons of medical gowns and masks, and the Stoutes bought their mansion in December 2020 — paying £1.75million above the asking price.
Land Registry records reveal no mortgage on the property.
It’s widely known the couple raked in a fortune from the pandemic, but only now has the true scale of the luxury they have been afforded come to light.
It is believed they had started receiving at least some of the Government’s PPE contract cash when they bought the house in the south of England.
Other features include a games room, a built-in advanced sound system, a cinema with seating for eight, and a one-bed annexe as well as a four-car garage block with sauna and gym above it, and a large barn.
Its sweeping driveway offers ample parking.
The Stoutes also bought a £30million seafront mega-villa in the Caribbean a £1million yacht, a Bentley car and an international equestrian centre on a £16.6million 225-acre estate in England.
Offshore tax haven
Horsey Sarah has since added an all-weather cross-country training arena to the equestrian centre, as well as wellbeing and therapy facilities and a cafe.
The Stoutes spent a fortune, too, on expensive lawyers in 2023, trying to gag The Sun on Sunday from exposing their obscene wealth — but we fought them off.
Our court victory meant we were permitted to publish a picture of Sarah walking in the surf on a Caribbean beach.
The Government ordered more than 30million masks, gowns and other PPE from private firms during the pandemic, paying nearly £15billion — and the Stoutes’ firm was by far the biggest winner, landing one tenth of the Government’s total spend.
Under an existing arrangement with the NHS, the company won two Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) purchase orders for PPE, including one for £1.78billion.
A DHSC rule meant contracts were not put out to tender, and experienced suppliers Sarah and Richard earned more than double the going rate.
Former nurse Sarah, 51, set up Full Support Healthcare in 2001 and husband Richard, 54, became a director three years later — but their pre-Covid annual profit before the giant PPE deal was less than £1million a year.
They maintain they took a huge gamble starting a PPE business and claim that at the end of 2019 they received a “tip-off” about the spread of the Covid from China, so enabling them to quickly boost their supplies.
Sarah said the scale of their PPE shipments from China rocketed from eight sea-freight containers a month to 800 — putting them at the front of the queue for supplying the Government.
AFPA hospital worker in protective clothing in Glasgow, 2020[/caption]
GettyDumped boxes of PPE piled up near a nature reserve in Calmore, Hants, in 2023[/caption]
In 2021, the Stoutes moved their company off-shore to tax haven Jersey, cloaking their finances in secrecy — and last month The Sun on Sunday revealed the pair would NOT be called to give evidence to the Covid Inquiry.
The public inquiry’s decision was blasted by the families of those who died during the pandemic, as well as transparency campaigners and politicians, all of whom want those who made huge profits from Covid to face tough questions.
There’s no suggestion Full Support Healthcare or the Stoutes have acted improperly by selling PPE to the government.
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