Bouncer firm boss wants ex wife jailed after divorce and collapse of business

West End clients: Soraya Henderson and Terry Neil ran TSS, which supplied door staff to businesses
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A West End security boss who supplied door staff to celebrity nightspots wants his ex-wife jailed after a bitter divorce and the collapse of their multi-million-pound business empire.

Terry Neil and Soraya Henderson counted casinos including the Empire and Hippodrome in Leicester Square, clubs Cirque le Soir and The Box, and the Eclipse bars among their clients.

They ran Manage Security Services Ltd, trading as TSS, providing door staff for 80 per cent of Soho’s clubs. But their 23-year marriage ended in 2015, leading to an acrimonious court battle over finances and control of the company.

TSS fell into administration but now Mr Neil, 50, has returned to the High Court to ask for Ms Henderson, 51, to be jailed, claiming she submitted forged documents during their legal tussle.

The pair, who shared a £2.4 million home in Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, ran TSS with an £18 million annual turnover. In recent years Cirque Le Soir, in Ganton Street, has welcomed Usain Bolt, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie and Miley Cyrus.

Their firm supplied door staff to businesses including the Hippodrome casino in Leicester Square
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Romie Tager QC, representing Mr Neil, told the court the ex-couple had an “antagonistic relationship”.

He said Ms Henderson was a TSS director until October 2014 then a senior employee with control over bank accounts.

“In early 2016 Mr Neil began to investigate substantial spending incurred by Ms Henderson on the company’s credit card and transfers of funds out of the company’s bank account,” he added.

“Ms Henderson was suspended ... she resigned in September 2016.”

He claimed Ms Henderson was being pursued over the “misappropriation of around £1.2 million of funds”, and the dispute centres on documents which, it is said, she used in the court battle last year.

Mr Neil “now knows these documents are forgeries”, said Mr Tager. “This is a serious case involving the forgery of documentary evidence and adducing false and forged witness evidence.”

Ms Henderson denies the allegations. Judge Roger Wyand QC adjourned the case to give Ms Henderson time to prepare her defence.

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