CAN ANYTHING BE DONE?
After many years of hard work to achieve community ownership of the playing fields at Udney Park, the sanctions imposed on owner Mr Wu have created hurdles that seem impossible to overcome.
Further news has emerged in the Times about whether Mr Wu is a fit custodian for Udney Park. Mr Wu is the owner of Leisure Focus who purchased Udney Park from Quantum, after a lengthy sales campaign by the estate agents, Savills. Since then, the fields have remained out of use apart from floodlight rugby training by Teddington RFC. Leisure Focus are an opaque business based in the British Virgin Islands and until now not much had been known about the company or Mr Wu. That has now changed with the news below.
After many years of hard work to achieve community ownership of the playing fields at Udney Park, the sanctions imposed on owner Mr Wu have created hurdles that seem impossible to overcome.
The Foundation have written to Lord Fink asking for an explanation as to how this land ended up getting sold to an international criminal.
The Times confirmed on 24th August that Mr Wu (the owner Of Udney Park playing fields) has been arrested in a Japan. The same article reported on his multiple identities and involvement in international crime.