Accountant neighbours’ 100k seven-year battle over parking

TWO accountants have spent £100,000 in a bitter seven-year feud over a “few feet” of parking space outside their west London homes, a court has heard.

- Tristan Kirk Courts Correspondent

Ivan Soares, 53, and Manish Kothari, 41, have been at war over parking in their Harefield cul-de-sac since 2015, with police at one point called out.

Mr Kothari and his brother and sister-in-law accuse their neighbour and his wife Sunita of “selfish parking,” claiming they deliberately left their vehicles only inches away on the drive to make it hard for them to even open their car door. But Mr and Mrs Soares say the Kotharis have trespassed on their own parking space, with both sides seeking injunctions to settle the feud.