Family’s pain after coroner stalls funeral of fall tycoon
There will be prolonged agony over the festive period for the family of Scot Young, the one-time property millionaire who plunged to his death from his fourth-floor balcony last week.
For I hear that Young’s family and friends were informed by Westminster coroner’s office this week that his body will not be released to them until the new year.
I t means t hat Young’s t wo daughters, 21-year- old Scarlet and Sasha, 19, will be unable to hold a funeral for their father for at least another fortnight.
I am told that Young’s glamorous American fiancee, Noelle reno, 33, with whom he is said to have split prior to his death, has already returned home to her family in Seattle for Christmas until there is further news.
‘It’s incredibly upsetting for Noelle as she hoped to be able to say goodbye to Scot before Christmas,’ says a friend. ‘ Instead, the whole business is going to linger over the festive break.’
Usually when a body is not released, i t means that a post- mortem examination is being carried out in case there i s to be a criminal investigation into a death.
If that is the case, it would appear to be at odds with the Metropolitan Police’s assertion last week that they were not treating Dundee- born Young’s death as suspicious. Many of Young’s friends certainly thought otherwise. Some said he was not the sort to take his own life, while others suggested his past dealings with unsavoury russian businessmen might finally have caught up him.
It has also emerged that his ex-wife Michelle, who is still trying to recover part of his £400 million fortune, challenged him over links to the Adams family, one of Britain’s most notorious organised crime syndicates.
No one from the coroner’s office was available to speak on the matter yesterday, explaining that the clerk of the court is currently on annual leave.