A multi-millionaire motivational speaker sued by his neighbours after his £4m house was built too close to them has lost a High Court fight for a £530,000 insurance payout to cover his court bill.
Alex MacPhail was dragged to court by web entrepreneur neighbour Tom Gueterbock and his wife Helen, who claimed he had staged a 'land grab' when his house was built with a cellar room extending under the boundary separating their homes.
The couple said the basement of his six-bed house "trespassed" across the boundary line by about 18 inches, tunnelling up to and even underneath the wall of their home in a sought-after street close to Wandsworth Common, south London.
