Former BHS owner Dominic Chappell banned as director

Disgraced businessman bought the chain for £1 a year before it collapsed

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Dominic Chappell, who bought BHS from Sir Philip Green for £1 a year before it collapsed with the loss of 11,000 jobs and a huge pension deficit, has been banned from serving as a company director for 10 years.

Chappell, described by Sky News as “the serial bankrupt whose brief ownership of the department store chain has cast him into the annals of corporate villainy,” has been handed the lengthy disqualification by the government's Insolvency Service.

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