Bank chases Botham’s daughter-in-law

An Irish bank has failed in an international search to track down Ian Botham’s daughter-in-law — Lisa Harrison-Botham — so it can serve her with court proceedings to repossess a house she shared with her former boyfriend, Mark Kershaw.

Neither Lisa Harrison, as named in the proceedings issued by Ulster Bank Ireland Limited, nor her former partner were in the Circuit Civil Court in Dublin when their names were called to answer the bank’s litigation yesterday.

Barrister John Donnelly, counsel for the bank, asked Judge Jacqueline Linnane for leave to serve the proceedings at the Northern Ireland address of glamour magazine IN which, he said, was edited by Ms Harrison.