Michael Lynn famously fled owing tens of millions of euro to banks and people he had ripped off. The last I heard of the lynngerbread man was that he was in Hungary and was meant to make a court appearance via video but was too ill, although not as sick as the innocent people he stung for their hard earned cash. That aside, doing a runner can be a natural instinct when under pressure, I am certainly not condoning it, but on some level I do understand why he did it.
The thing is, perhaps solicitors were just the first group in the chain? Likely their house of cards fell down first. That leaves us with builders, developers, and some brokers and bankers who may decide it is easier to up sticks and run.
I think that the majority of people have the integrity to face up to the hard realities many of us face from time to time and on the whole I have faith in builders and developers alike. We …