Antonelli v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1998) 1 All ER Available to Purchase

Mr Samuel Antonelli, the appellant, was a property agent, who accepted that he was conducting an estate agent's business in the UK until 1985. Earlier in his life he had worked in the realty business in Detroit. There in the recorder's court he was convicted in 1973 of the crime of burning real estate other than a dwelling house between 1st and 8th December, 1971, an offence contrary to Ch. 750, s. 73 of the Michigan Criminal Law Act. On 12th June he was ordered to serve between 2.5 and ten years' imprisonment for that offence. He did not serve the sentence but left for Israel and from there came to the UK. He did not return to serve his sentence.