Sir Richard Sutton - who was worth £301 million - owned some of the most exclusive hotels in London. He was 83 and spent most of his time at his home in the west of England.

A man suspected of murdering one of Britain’s richest men is under police guard in hospital.

Sir Richard Sutton, who owned the Sheraton Grand and Athenaeum hotels in London’s West End, was killed at his mansion near Gillingham in Dorset.

Dorset Police say someone broke into the property on the evening of Wednesday, 7 April, and attacked Sir Richard and his wife, who is in her 60s, with a knife.

Sir Richard died at the house but his wife was rushed to hospital in Bristol, where she remains in a critical condition.

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