Unpaid Coroin bill angered McKillen

A businessman regarded as the face of Coroin, the hotel group, regularly used hotels owned by the firm and ran up a large unpaid bill, developer Patrick McKillen told the High Court in London yesterday.

Mr McKillen, from Belfast, claim David and Frederick Barclay, owners of The Daily Telegraph, “engaged in a scheme” to take control of Coroin, which owns Claridge’s, the Connaught and the Berkeley hotels.

Mr McKillen was addressing the second day of a trial in London after claiming he had been a victim of “unlawfulness” and “unfairly prejudicial conduct”.