A retired banking boss and his wife have been embroiled in a legal ding-dong with a Parliament's master bell-ringer after he ripped out the front gate to their £2million west London home when they moved in.
Nicholas Partick-Hiley - a former Panmure Gordon Securities top executive - bought his mews cottage in Fulham, in August 2023, planning to make the elegant, sprawling property a dream home for his retirement alongside wife, Lisa.
However the 64-year-old ex-financier was shocked when he arrived to find his bell-ringer neighbour, Adrian Udal, 65, demolishing the door and roller gate of his new home in an act of 'wanton destruction'.
Mr Udal, who had lived next door to the couple's property for 30 years, claimed he had merely been asserting rights over land he owns when ripping out the previous gate and installing a new one at the end of the driveway.
The couple sued for an injunction against Mr Udal, claiming the right to put up new gates across the opening which leads to their house, citing 'security concerns' in the affluent street.
