Palm Beach down one bankrupt thanks to Interpol

Vanessa Morris-Jackson leaving
Federal Magistrates Court.
Photo: SiN Images

IT'S not often the burghers of Palm Beach have Interpol to thank for curtailing their community's recondite colony of bankrupts.

Usually the insolvency trustee's personal insolvency agreements limit bankrupt populations in exclusive suburbs, but this time the world police can take the credit.

And while the restraint is probably temporary, the fact remains that since July, bankrupt British businessman Tony Morris has been prevented from returning to his clifftop mansion on Whale Beach Road thanks to a so-called "red flag" attached to his passport.

The flag's presence is not so surprising. Until recently the UK authorities believed Mr Morris harboured an immoderate passion for the contents of certain British pension funds.

This lady’s veto is not for overturning

The property of bankrupt businessman Tony Morris,
which Andrew Wily can't sell without the consent
of Vanessa Morris.

SHE might be a “single mother on a pension” but she can still marshal top QCs and barristers in defense of her realm.

The lady in question is Vanessa Morris (Jackson), who this week saw off a challenge in the Federal Magistrates Court from Armstrong Wily's Andrew Wily.

If Wily's application had been successful, the Palm Beach mansion Mrs Morris occupies would have been sold without her having any say in the transaction.