PERSONAL PROTECTION
PERSONAL PROTECTION
Baroness Mone, Her Bodyguard and The Gangster
It’s really hard to feel sorry for Baroness Mone of Mayfair - formerly Michelle from Glasgow - the one that lifted herself up from brassic to bra millionairess.
The Tories made our Michelle a life peer in 2015 for services to, well, tits, who continued to support her during the Covid pandemic.
The bra Baroness is now under investigation by the rozzers over how she and her husband secured government contracts worth over £200m to supply personal protective equipment (PPE).
She took a leave of absence from the Lords to clear her name having repeatedly lied to the media.
Mone, 52, claimed the PPE deal and obscene profits accrued from it had nothing to do with her.
This, despite documents showing she’d used the government’s ‘VIP lane’ available to Tory friends to put forward her husband’s newly formed company - PPE Medpro - as a supplier of masks and gowns.
Bank statements further showed a £29m share of the £65m profit going to an offshore trust with Mone and her children as beneficiaries.
The lies were apparently told to protect her offspring from media intrusion, she claimed last year in a fightback ‘documentary’ on youtube financed by PPE Medpro and fronted by ex-Surrey police officer turned TV presenter Mark Williams-Thomas.
The National Crime Agency had searched Mone’s home in London and the couple’s 145-acre estate in the Isle of Mann as part of its on-going fraud and bribery investigation.
Earlier this month, a business associate of the couple was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit fraud and perverting the course of justice.
In such circumstances, it’s really hard for The Upsetter to worry about the safety of our Michelle and her prized assets.
Until, that is, last week’s Sunday Times reported that she has hired Will Geddes as her bodyguard.
Lady Mone, it appears, is afraid that malcontents who lost relatives while the Tories partied and their friends cashed in on Covid, might want to do more than pull her bra strap.
She has therefore turned to Geddes, an action man who once bodyguarded Jon Bon Jovi but isn’t living on a prayer.
One can only hope Geddes does a better job protecting Mone than when he went up against London’s top gangster David Hunt.
It’s not an episode the security consultant talks about when journalists come to him for a quote on the perils of close protection.
Here’s why.
