Heather Mills got caught out at every stage. She made false claim after false claim, she obviously thought that Macca's lawyers were not going to ask for substantiation.
Ultimately, in addition to her property and assets demand, she claimed income support of £3.25m per annum. In his calculations Judge Bennet concluded that £580,000 was fair but rounded it up to £600,000 pa.
Her £3.25m annual claim included a sum of £627,000 for charity expenditure. She wanted Paul to fund her charity work. Here's what she asked for,. I have underlined her claims for flight expenditure-it is gobsmacking. I make it a demand for £716,000 each and every year in various flight expenses. She demanded more in flights than she was awarded in total.
211. I shall now analyse the wife’s budget.
212. It is based on a number of matters. She claims for seven fully staffed properties with full-time housekeepers in the annual sum of £645,000. She claims holiday expenditure of £499,000 p.a. (including private and helicopter flights of £185,000), £125,000 p.a. for her clothes, £30,000 p.a. for equestrian activities (she no longer rides), £39,000 p.a. for wine (she does not drink alcohol), £43,000 p.a. for a driver, £20,000 p.a. for a carer, and professional fees of £190,000 p.a. All these items Mr Mostyn submits are theoretically recognised heads of expenditure but “extraordinarily exaggerated”.
213. He,( macca's lawyer) next, submits that the following items are not only hugely exaggerated but also impermissible in principle. They are £542,000 p.a. for security, £627,000 p.a. for charitable donations, £73,000 p.a. for the cost of business staff and £39,000 p.a. for helicopter hospital flights.
228. Charity expenditure at an annual rate of £627,000 includes airfares of £180,000 for commercial flights, £120,000 for helicopter flights, and £192,000 for private flights. I accept that the wife is very committed to charities and their causes but the degree of such proposed expenditure is, I am sorry to have to say, ridiculous.
I mean its not like she needs the extra leg room !!!
