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Businessman's £10m bail package (From The Bolton News)
Businessman's £10m bail package
6:30am Saturday 23rd August 2008
A MILLIONAIRE businessman charged with sex and drug offences has been released from custody after agreeing a £10million bail package.
Anthony David Atherton — the founder of online retailer Dabs.com — has been charged with attempted rape, possession of Class A drugs, false imprisonment and making threats to kill.
The offences are alleged to have happened at around 4.45pm last Sunday.
A bail application for Atherton, aged 50, of Victoria Road, Heaton, was heard at Bolton Crown Court yesterday.
He was granted bail after agreeing a £10 million surety which will have to be paid to the court if he fails to abide by his bail conditions.
Atherton was bailed to a Priory clinic in Cheshire where he has been ordered to follow an in-patient programme for one month.
Following the month, he will have to report to the clinic on a weekly basis.
Atherton was arrested on Sunday and was then remanded in custody by Bolton Magistrates on Tuesday, who committed his case to Bolton Crown Court on October 31.
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