A SPECTACULAR Perthshire estate, which is a favourite shooting ground of Government ministers, has been put on the market for #2m.
The rugged 5900-acre
Glenturret estate, in Perthshire, is let out to rich game hunters and boasts many senior Conservatives among its clients.
Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind was shooting on the estate when, as Scottish
Secretary, he learned that a bomb had been responsible for the Lockerbie disaster. Former Defence Minister Lord Younger, now the chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland, has also hunted there.
Glenturret, which lies seven miles west of Crieff, is renowned for the wide variety of wild game which can be shot there.
There is a 4800-acre
grouse moor, extensive pheasant and partridge shoots, a roe deer forest, golden plover, woodcocks, thousands of mountain hare, a thriving wild duck population, and three well-stocked trout lochs.
The estate is owned by a property investment company, Terrathule Ltd, registered in the Bahamas. London lawyers, Mr Robert Gibbons and Mr Richard Dunn, are directors of Glenturret Estates Ltd which manages the land.
Mr Gibbons, 59, who has houses in London, St Helier in Jersey, and at Comrie,
near Glenturret, is an expert on Middle Eastern law
and is a director of several British companies owned by Arabs.
In recent years, investigators from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds have visited Glenturret several times after the discovery of the bodies of poisoned birds of prey in the area and reports of the use of illegal gin traps on poles to catch predators which feed on the captive pheasants.
A shooting lodge in a picturesque setting beside an isolated loch in the middle
of the estate, a large farmhouse and two gamekeepers' cottages are included in the sale.
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