A COUPLE who claim their mansion is infested by millions of moths are suing for more than £36million.
Heiress Iya Patarkatsishvili and dentist husband Dr Yevhen Hunyak say the bugs caused £50,000 of damage to their clothes and forced them to throw out wine and food.
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They allege they were not told about the insects when they paid £32.5million in May 2019 but they were soon overrun.
At one stage they were swatting 100 a day at the mansion in Notting Hill, West London, the High Court has been told.
The couple are suing seller William Woodward-Fisher for “fraudulent misrepresentation”.
They say he also had moth problems which required frequent treatment.
They want him to buy back the property from them — and pay them compensation.
Jonathan Seitler, for Mr Woodward-Fisher, said the couple, or people for them, visited the house 11 times before buying.
Despite careful inspection, the couple say they were dismayed with what one insect specialist called “an infestation of extreme proportions… amounting to millions of moths”.
“This was far more extreme than an ordinary domestic experience of moths,” said their barrister Mr McGhee.
“Moths were flying around at night whenever someone was using a screen, clothes had to be packed in hermetic bags, carpets and furniture were damaged, numerous items of clothes were eaten, moths got in wine and food, and on cutlery and toothbrushes.”
The case continues.
