Millionaire fined after using children's gravestones to build a patio

Andrea James 4:28 am Wed Aug 19, 2015

Today in 1% villainy: UK property developer Kim Davies broke a bunch of laws when he used children's gravestones from a derelict church he owned to build an illegal patio at a historic home.

From The Daily Mail:

Newport Crown Court heard how planners were horrified when they saw the 'decorative stone plaques' had been used as part of a gaudy £1m makeover to the Grade II-listed home, turning it into a 'palace for an Iron Curtain dictator'. One of the 150-year-old gravestones was even engraved with the names of three brothers and a sister who all died while under the age of four.

Not only was this in violation of planning laws for Llanwenarth House, a property where Cecil Frances Alexander once penned All Things Bright And Beautiful, it seems like the plot to every other horror film.

• Millionaire property developer who used children's gravestones to build a patio at £2.2million mansion which inspired All Things Bright And Beautiful is ordered to pay £300,000

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