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Sir Philip Green yesterday hid on his £100million super-yacht as a former BHS worker tried to question him about the firm’s demise.

Sitting on a hired boat in the shadow of Green’s floating palace ­Lionheart, single mum Hannah Cullen, 23, politely asked him to face her. But the tycoon – dubbed Philip Greed – refused to come out.

Using a loudhailer, she then told the billionaire: “You are a coward.”

Hannah, now living on £120-a-week in benefits after six years working at BHS, earlier told the former owner: “Sir Philip Green, my name is Hannah Cullen.

“I’m a former employee of BHS and I’ve been made redundant because of your actions. You are here on your £100million yacht while thousands of BHS workers have been left without jobs.

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“What you’re doing is cowardly. Would you come and face me? I’ve got a letter for you and I’d like to deliver it to you.”

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Some of Green’s 40 boat staff did come outside to listen but Green, 64, remained unmoved behind the vessel’s black smoked glass. His cowardice came less than 48 hours after BHS’s 22 remaining stores were closed down by administrators, ending the iconic chain’s proud 88-year history .

Hannah, of Ware, Herts, travelled to Capri, Italy, after taking a flight from London Stansted to Rome. She then made a two-hour car trip to Naples and a 45-minute boat ride to the exclusive island.

She said last night: “I didn’t take the decision to travel to Capri lightly, but I decided I needed to come to try and speak to Mr Green. I worked hard for him for six years to help fund his lifestyle and this is how he has repaid me.

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“The way he behaves is disgusting.”

She added: “I wanted to explain to him the impact his decisions had and ask him for his reassurances that he will at least do everything he can to save workers’ pensions.

“He didn’t even give me the courtesy of walking out on to the deck of his boat to see me. It just shows the contempt he clearly holds us in.”

In the emotional letter, published in the Mirror today, Hannah told how she was excited to join BHS in 2010. But she expressed anger that her store in Harlow, Essex, and others around the country were left to deteriorate.

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She wrote: “Over the last six years I’ve watched this once great company fall apart.

“You have managed to destroy an iconic part of the British High Street which could easily have been saved.”

Billionaire Green – who has been on a sailing holiday in the Mediterranean for more than five weeks – bought BHS and more than 170 stores in 2000.

He sold it to a group of investors led by three-times bankrupt Dominic Chappell for £1 last year . The company’s collapse in April led to a lengthy parliamentary inquiry.

A report by Labour MP Frank Field said Green plundered vast sums from its coffers.

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Thousands of Mirror readers have called for Green to be stripped of his knighthood, as he comes under growing pressure to fill the firm’s £571million pensions black hole .

The Pensions Regulator is probing ­dealings of the Arcadia Group, Green family subsidiaries and wife Lady Tina, 67, who controls the family fortune. And the Serious Fraud Office has said a criminal ­investigation could be launched if there are ­reasonable grounds to suspect fraud.

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Hannah, whose four-year-old daughter Amelia is set to start school next month, added: “I only got a £200 redundancy payment and I’m now being forced to feed and clothe myself and my daughter using Jobseeker’s Allowance and child credits.

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“At the same time, Green and his family are free to carry on living a life of luxury.

“I don’t begrudge any business owner a nice life, but it’s wrong entrepreneurs can come in and make huge profits and then just pull out when things aren’t going well.

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“While Mr Green was taking huge ­financial dividends out of BHS, we were being forced to work in shoddy conditions because the store was being neglected.

“There was no investment to try and tempt new customers in. I believe it was purposely left to rot and fail.

“I’d certainly welcome a criminal ­investigation into the actions of Mr Green, Dominic Chappell and anyone else involved in the store’s demise. Mr Green can’t hide on his boat for ever.”

Green hopes that finally writing a fat cheque will get him off the hook.

Staff have been in talks with the Pensions Regulator about shortfalls in BHS’s two pension funds. Reports say he is ready to offer £300million.

That will be in exchange for a wider pensions investigation being dropped. That probe could take in Lady Green, owner of Arcadia which ran BHS. But Green’s problems don’t end there. The Serious Fraud Office is still reviewing evidence before it decides if it will investigate.

And the Insolvency Service is carrying out a fast-track probe that could lead to ex-bosses being banned from directorships.

SIR Philip, 64, and his wife Lady Tina, 67, have enjoyed a five-week trip around the Med as BHS collapsed.

The billionaire’s luxury £100million super-yacht Lionheart left Livorno,

Italy, at the beginning of July, before clocking up thousands of miles ferrying the pair and their 40 staff - including a chef and a dog walker -

around Europe.

After leaving Livorno, the boat made its way to Malta before continuing into the Ionian Sea.

The boat then made its way through the famous Korinth Canal, before moving on to the Aegian Islands for a number of weeks, including Skiathos,

Skopelos, Alonnisos, Spetses, Hydra, Lefkada, Ithaca and Corfu.

Then on Friday morning, Green continued to live the high-life onboard Lionheart after the boat left Corfu.

He then spent the weekend just off the coast of the picturesque Aeolian Islands of Lipari and then Stromboli, before arriving at Marina Piccola, on the south side of Capri just hours before BHS’ closure.

He stayed just off the shore of the exclusive island until yesterday afternoon when he ordered deckhands to prepare the vessel to leave and it continued on its way to its next destination.

Lionheart left the south coast of Capri yesterday afternoon.

Tonight it was understood he would today arrive at Costa Smeralda, a coastal area in northern Sardinia.