A businesswoman preventing to keep away from being evicted from her £3 million Scottish fort after a 25-year battle over a £230 debt has misplaced a bid to take her case to the Supreme Court docket.
Marian van Overwaele, 71, has fought 20 years of makes an attempt to have her faraway from Knockderry Citadel, in Cove, Argyll, in order that it may be offered to repay her collectors after she was made bankrupt in 2000.
She was declared bankrupt after repeatedly refusing to pay a invoice associated to a bridalwear enterprise she ran in 1997 and the debt rose to £30,000, with a trustee appointed to take management over her property.
After her chapter, possession of the fort was then transferred from Mrs van Overwaele into her brother George Amil’s title in 2000. She stayed on the fort with him and his household.
Judges on the Court docket of Session upheld an earlier resolution final July to permit the chapter trustee, George Lafferty, to evict the household and take management of the fort. They dominated in opposition to Mrs van Overwaele and her brother as a result of they didn’t attend courtroom and gave no correct excuse.
Nonetheless, she made a bid to cease her eviction from the mansion on the banks of Loch Lengthy. After one other listening to on the Court docket of Session, Mrs van Overwaele has now been denied permission to attraction the ruling on the Supreme Court docket in London.
Marian van Overwaele, 71, (pictured) has fought 20 years of makes an attempt to have her faraway from Knockderry Citadel, in Cove, Argyll, in order that it may be offered to repay her collectors after she was made bankrupt in 2000
Sheriff officers and police arrived to evict Mrs van Overwaele in September 2010 after prices associated to her chapter hit £160,000.
However the divorcee appealed the eviction discover and she or he was given extra time to pay.
Talking beforehand in regards to the case, she mentioned: ‘The unique invoice had nothing to do with me within the first place.
‘This home now belongs to my brother and my household have spent a whole bunch of hundreds of kilos lovingly restoring it.
‘That is my residence however I’m very apprehensive that the home will likely be taken.
‘I’m 45 years in Scotland now, my life is right here. It has affected me very badly and I do not wish to cry – I’ve cried sufficient.
‘Generally I wake throughout the night time and pray, ‘Please let this be a dream, or a nightmare and never a real story.’
Court docket of Session dominated final July to let chapter trustee take over fort and evict the household. After one other listening to on the Court docket of Session, Mrs van Overwaele has now been denied permission to attraction the ruling to the Supreme Court docket in London. Pictured: Knockderry Citadel