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Three other people were taken to hospital with minor injuries after the incident in Carthew Terrace, St Ives, Cornwall, on Sunday evening, said Devon and Cornwall Police.

The takeover by Mr Kretinsky, who owns stakes in West Ham United football club and supermarket Sainsbury's, marked the first time Royal Mail has been taken into foreign ownership.

But the liquidator, who has gone through the books, says there is no evidence that he has taken a lot of the missing cash.

Less than six months later, peace talks between the two Asian giants have been turbocharged by decisions taken thousands of miles away in Washington DC.

He told the judge one plane may have taken off but had returned.