Violent loan shark ordered to repay €1.38m of his fortune

A VIOLENT loan shark who preyed on hundreds of vulnerable people was ordered to pay back £1.2 million (€1.38m) of his fortune yesterday.

John Kiely, 36, is serving a five-year sentence after being found guilty of blackmail in July last year.

Kiely, who lived in a seven-bedroom mock Tudor castle in Derbyshire, built up a multimillion- pound empire and left customers fearing for their lives.