Giovanni Jacovelli, who runs the Conwy Valley Maze in North Wales, says he has been subjected to repeated threats by Terrence Maitland, who lets out a holiday cottage on neighbouring land over a post put on the boundary between the properties. In footage filmed by Mr Jacovelli, Mr Maitland is heard shouting, “That post is…
Bankers Andrew and Penny McSpadden have been involved in a parking dispute with finance company boss Sheriar Bradbury for a number of years over the size of the car parking bays outside the converted church they share in Hampstead. The dispute escalated when art dealers Mary and Yuval Hanina paid £1.45m to buy the third…
Audrey Hepburn’s eldest son Sean Ferrer is being sued by The Audrey Hepburn Children’s Fund, the charity he helped establish because it says he is interfering with its attempts to raise money for children. Money was being raised largely by exhibiting her clothing – some created by fashion designer Givenchy. The charity is saying that…
The late actress Audrey Hepburn, who died in 1993, left memorabilia including hats, scarves, jewellery, posters, costumes, photos, scripts and awards, which caused a dispute between her two sons, Sean Ferrer and his half-brother Luca Dotti who each wanted a tangible piece of their late mother. Hepburn had left her sons a 50/50 cut of…
An accountant forged his dead mother’s will to take control of a slice in his family’s £160million palm oil business. Girish Dahyabhai Patel from north London, used a blank document, pre-signed by his mother, before adding a will around it. Mr Patel was caught out by forensic analysis, which revealed the faint indentation of her…
A Minnesota probate judge overseeing the estate of Prince has refused to appoint either of two probate lawyers seeking to represent the late music star’s likely heirs in managing his legacy, citing disagreement among the siblings over whom they prefer. Prince left behind a fortune believed to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars when…
Beyoncé is being sued for $20 million by the estate of a late internet star who is sampled in her song and video Formation. The estate of Anthony Barré, also known as Messy Mya, alleges in a filed federal lawsuit that Beyoncé used a sample of Mya in the single and its video without permission.…
A pensioner is to face a criminal trial for ‘illegally digging up some soil’ as part of a bitter neighbour dispute that has lasted nearly 20 years. Valerie Vivian was allegedly spotted digging up soil laid by her neighbours in a jointly-owned communal garden in Somerset. Her neighbours had laid the soil over a gravel…
Two rogue traders in charge of building firms which carried out tens of thousands of pounds of shoddy work face prison after they admitted a catalogue of reckless trading offences. Jonathan Jones and Rebecca Dack pleaded guilty to crimes against customers who were charged more than £50,000 for building work. It was said they “failed…
A former judge and her husband who forged a dead man’s will in order to obtain two country cottages which they then converted into a £325,000 home were jailed for six months each earlier today. Margaret and Alan Hampshire made it appear as though Martin Blanche had left his house to an elderly cousin of…