Ex-Team GB rower sued for £36m by billionaire oligarch's daughter over claims he sold her a 'moth infested' Notting Hill mansion says she's wrongly portraying home as like an 'insect house at a zoo'

Ex-Team GB rower sued for £36m by billionaire oligarch's daughter over claims he sold her a 'moth infested' Notting Hill mansion says she's wrongly portraying home as like an 'insect house at a zoo' By MARK DUELL Published: 09:35, 15 November 2024 | Updated: 09:45, 15 November 2024 e-mail View comments A super-rich couple suing for over £36million over a moth infestation have been accused of portraying their home as like 'an insect house at a zoo.' Iya Patarkatsishvili and Dr Yevhen Hunyak are suing the seller of their luxury London home for not telling them about the moths, which they say ruin their clothes and spoil their wine, and have forced them to install 400 traps around their house. They want their money back on the £32.

5million purchase of the enormous Horbury Villa in Notting Hill, plus damages, claiming that they would have to tear their house apart to rid it of the infestation. But lawyers for seller, William Woodward-Fisher, are fighting the High Court claim and say the moth presence in the house has been blown out of proportion and could be just the 'base level' seen in other London houses. 'It is possible when reading some of the evidence in this case to imagine being inside the property like being in an insect house at a zoo,' said his barrister Jonathan Seitler KC.

'However, any given level of moth presence can bother one person whilst not bothering, or even being noticeable to, another.' Previously, the High Court heard that Mr Woodward-Fisher, 68, who fo.