Deputy High Court judge Sarah Clarke KC found that neither Naomi Parry nor Catriona Gourley deliberately concealed any disputed items from Mitch Winehouse. The judge stated that even if she was wrong about concealment, Mitch Winehouse could have discovered what disputed items the defendants had with reasonable diligence. In December of last year, lawyers for Mitch Winehouse told the court that Naomi Parry and Catriona Gourley did not inform him they were selling the items.
Naomi Parry and Catriona Gourley, through their barristers, told the court that the items sold were gifted to them by Amy Winehouse or were already owned by them. Naomi Parry stated in her written statement that she believed the Winehouse family knew she was auctioning items and that Mitch Winehouse was made aware during a meeting in October 2018. She also stated she believed Amy Winehouse would have wanted her and Catriona Gourley to be financially secure.
I believed, and still very much believe, that Amy would have wanted me and Catriona to be financially secure.
Amy Winehouse died on July 23, 2011, at age 27 at her home in Camden, North London, from alcohol poisoning. Lawyers for Mitch Winehouse said legal proceedings were his only means of obtaining answers. In her written statement, Catriona Gourley said that in the days after Amy Winehouse's funeral, Mitch Winehouse was giving out his late daughter's clothes to fans outside her home in Camden. Catriona Gourley said she and Naomi Parry were shocked at how many of Amy Winehouse's possessions were being taken by family members on that day.
it was what she would have wanted