The suggestion that there may have been a child in the empty house at the time is disingenuous; neighbours said he had not been seen for weeks after taking his children out of a local private school and it is believed he is overseas

The picture of a baying mob throwing things owes more to the imagination of Gary Larson than the reality of a small group described by experts as well-educated individuals conducting an organized assault

"Professor Capitanchik, of the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, grouped the gang together with environmental terrorists and guerrilla animal protection activists.

"These groups, while not using violence against people, are not too concerned about causing damage," he said. "All of this, in their view, is to bring home the message, whatever it happens to be."

He said they were likely to be young, highly motivated, well-educated individuals and suggested they could be bank workers or investors."

From the same report in the Times

"There have previously been protests outside the property since it emerged that Sir Fred had negotiated a £16.9 million pension package and had no intention of giving it back.
Banners posted outside decried him as a "scumbag millionaire".

On Monday, Sir Max Hastings, a military historian and former newspaper editor*, called on the public to throw stones through the windows of failed bankers"

* of that well known Marxist newspaper The Daily Telegraph