FUGITIVE restaurateur Howard Holland (pictured) has allegedly told his former Guernsey business partners to ‘whistle for their money’.

The last remnants of the hard-to-find businessman’s empire are being chopped up by Guernsey courts while he reportedly opens new establishments with an England footballer in Spain and is selling his £1.3m. St Martin’s house.

The former owner of restaurants and bars such as Villa Italia, Budah Bar, Christies and others, who owes hundreds of thousands of pounds in the island, including more than £226,000 to Advocate Peter Ferbrache and his wife Glenda, has repeatedly failed to appear in court and has been unreachable on the Costa del Sol.

In a formal written statement submitted to the Royal Court, Glenda Ferbrache described a conversation between her husband and Mr Holland when they last spoke on the telephone in May.

‘Mr Holland said he was now “away” and people in Guernsey could be like the authorities in Belfast and “whistle for their money”,’ said Mrs Ferbrache.

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