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DEAL THAT ROSE FROM THE DEAD
Revealed: How the company that benefited from the infamous sale of three cemeteries by Dame Shirley Porter is now owned by academy’s sponsor
A COMPANY linked to one of the biggest scandals in Westminster Council’s history is now owned by the future sponsor of Pimlico School.
Cemetery Management Ltd (CML) profited from the sell-off of three graveyards by Dame Shirley Porter in 1987. It is, according to a council document published in January, contracted to dig graves for Westminster Council in the East Finchley Cemetery.
CML was bought by Sovereign Capital Ltd, owned by venture capitalist John Nash, in 2003 for an undisclosed sum.
Mr Nash’s education charity Future was on Monday officially named as the sponsor of Pimlico School when it becomes an academy in September 2008.
This decision has been blasted by campaigners who fear Tory council chiefs should not have handed over the school in this way. Labour group leader Councillor Paul Dimoldenberg called the decision “scandalous”.
Mr Nash, a former chairman of the British Venture Capitalist Association, was a major donor for the David Davis leadership campaign in 2005 and has sat on committees with Westminster councillors.
At the City Hall meeting on Monday council leader Sir Simon Milton rejected the criticism.
And Mr Nash said: “This is absolutely nothing to do with politics.”
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