Businessman’s troubled past
Euan Snowie, who made a fortune from the family’s waste disposal company during the 2001 foot-andmouth crisis, is facing eviction from his home on the historic 70-acre Boquhan Estate.
A decree was granted at Stirling Sheriff Court in October, formalising his eviction.
But he is battling to remain in his seven-bedroom mansion and claimed to have raised over £2.5 million to recall the sequestration.
He is also due to face trial at Alloa Sheriff Court in January accused of “conniving”in the breaking of environmental protection law while a director of Ochil Services Ltd. He denies the charge.
Last year joint administrators appointed to handle the affairs of another of Mr Snowie’s companies, commercial and residential property firm Snowie Solutions Ltd revealed it had debts of over £12 million.
In a high profile case in 2007, Snowie unsuccessfully tried to get ramblers banned from the lands round his home, claiming that his family would be put at risk of kidnap unless much of his estate was excluded the Scottish Parliament’s 2002‘right to roam’legislation.
In 2016, he was fined £1000 for assaulting his elder daughter Louise, then 20, in a row about the use of a luxury car, and last year he was admonished by a sheriff for smashing windows at his wife’s farmhouse.