Publicity-seeking Simon Burgess.

Publicity-seeking Simon Burgess, the managing director of GRIP who dreamed up alien abduction insura...

Publicity-seeking Simon Burgess, the managing director of GRIP who
dreamed up alien abduction insurance, has hit the headlines once
again.


This time fowl play is certainly suspected.


Larger-than-life Mr Burgess made the news pages of The Daily Telegraph and
The Colchester Evening Gazette after a chicken that he insured for #1m
died in "suspicious circumstances".


Violet, a four-year old Rhode Island Red, was, until recently, a
well-known member of the community in Finchingfield, Essex. However, her
fr

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