Georgian billionaire’s daughter and her husband say Notting Hill home has ‘vermin infestation’
Iya Patarkatsishvili and Dr Yevhen Hunyak bought the early Victorian seven-bedroom Notting Hill home in west London – with pool, spa, gym, wine room, library, cinema, and a “snoring room” designed for peaceful sleep – for £32.5m in May 2019.
John McGhee KC, for the couple, said they were swatting about 100 moths a day and even after intensive sprays and expert treatment still maintain a daily kill count of up to 35. They say the source of the infestation is wool insulation behind walls and ceilings. Woodward-Fisher denies all claims, insisting that he gave honest and full replies on the pre-sale inquiries form, and that as far as he knew any previous moth problems had been eliminated by the time of the move. He also says the couple’s valuation of how much it would cost to remedy the problem is massively overblown, arguing that the true repair bill would be £162,652.
The court heard that Woodward-Fisher bought the site in 2011 and lived there with his wife, Kerry, 64, an interior designer. The house was extended and radically remodelled before being sold to Patarkatsishvili, 41, the daughter of Badri Patarkatsishvili, a Georgian businessman who fell out with Vladimir Putin and moved to the UK in 2000, and Hunyak, 50, a paediatric dentist who practises in Chelsea.
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