Northamptonshire wedding venue is site of weight-loss jabs raid

With its cream-white Georgian facade, an interior featuring chandeliers and dark wood panelling, and sprawling grounds complete with roaming peacocks, Moulton Grange might seem an unlikely setting for the manufacture of black market medicines.

The estate, which lies about seven miles (11 km) north of Northampton near the village of Pitsford, has 28 acres of lawns, lakes and sheep-grazed pastures.

The property sold for £2.2m in 2017, according to Land Registry records.

Sales details from the time describe a 12-bedroom house with eight bathrooms, multiple reception rooms, a billiards room and a separate staff apartment.

Both the main house and an adjoining cottage are available for event hire and short-term lets.

Ownership records show the estate is owned by Faiz Hameed, 61, and Rashda Hameed, 59, who are also directors of Moulton Grange Limited, a company described as managing real estate.

It is not clear whether the Hameeds live on the estate as their main residence.

They did not respond to the BBC’s questions about the alleged manufacture of weight-loss drugs on the premises.

Faiz Hameed was previously fined £312,000 for offences under the Housing Act 2004 after safety breaches were uncovered at eight houses in multiple occupation (HMO) properties he owned in Northampton.