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Couple fear they have lost £60k after investing in Edinburgh businessman

A couple fear they have lost all their life savings after investing with a dodgy businessman linked to Scotland’s space race.

Chris Sheppard, along with his wife Elaine, invested £60,000 of their savings into a firm run by Michael Haston.

Haston- who also goes by the name McQueen- previously invested £2 million into a government backed spaceport in Shetland while also facing fraud charges at the time.

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