As a hard-nosed businessman, care-home boss Sukhjit Bains was used to driving a tough bargain.
But even he cannot have believed the extraordinary deal he unwittingly struck when he bought a three-bedroom house at auction from Birmingham City Council – and got a primary school thrown in for free.
The unexpected bonus came about after his solicitor sent the wrong type of contract when he was finalising the paperwork to confirm the purchase of the property for £395,000. It included the school – and was then rubber-stamped by the council’s conveyancer, who hadn’t noticed the error.
The astonishing mistake means that in theory Mr
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