Controversial tycoon dies of cancer
A BUSINESSMAN who once tried to ban ramblers from his country estate over kidnap fears has died at the age of 53.
Euan Snowie, who had a number of run-ins with the law, passed away in hospital after battling cancer.
His family made their fortune by capitalising on government payments to their waste management business during the 2001 foot-andmouth outbreak.
Together with his brothers Malcolm, Alistair and Gordon, and their mother Sheila, they sold the company to Irish-owned Oran Waste UK Ltd for around £40million in 2005.
After later business problems, Mr Snowie was banned from acting as the director of a limited firm for nine years in 2018.
In 2007, he tried unsuccessfully through a civil court action to ban ramblers from the land round his home at Boquhan Estate, Kippen, Stirlingshire, claiming that his family’s wealth put them at risk of kidnapping.
In 2014, Perth Sheriff Court heard how the Snowie family had been torn apart by a feud sparked by an unpaid loan deal. Mr Snowie was charged with making threats to his sister-in-law but was found not guilty.
In 2016, he was fined £1,000 for assaulting his daughter Louise, then aged 20, in a row over a car. Mr Snowie passed away at Forth Valley Royal Hospital on January 6.