[1] When John Porter was young, he was given £4 million by his grandfather, Sir Jack Cohen, the founder of Tesco.

[2] During the early 1990s he became involved with a property development company called Chelverton Investments, owning a 45 percent stake as of 1993.

[3] A key plank in John Porter's empire was said in 2000 to be the fortune he had made out of the US computer company Telos, based in Virginia, which has close ties to the Pentagon.

Telos was originally called C3, and specialised in the communication systems that formed the backbone of the US Army.

[1] In 2015 Porter used his holding company i-Spire to acquire a 50% stake in digital marketing firm of LD Sharma i.e.