Man To Sue Over Nazi Bomb Damage

A man is to sue a firm of surveyors for not telling him his home was blown up by Adolf Hitler's planes 60 years ago.

John Proctor was shocked to discover more than half the house was re-built after the Luftwaffe raid on an airport near his home in England.

He is now threatening to sue a local firm of chartered surveyors for failing to mention it in their report when he bought the house.

If he were to succeed,it could set a precendent for thousands of other people across Britain whose homes were re-built after war damage.

Five houses in Mr Proctor's street were damaged in the badly-executed bombing run by Hitler's planes and all were subsequently re-built.

Mr Proctor believes his £85,000 semi-detached home should not have been given the all-clear by the building experts because half of it has been re-constructed.

He first discovered the history of the house when a friend pointed out that the pre-war home appeared to have different coloured bricks.

Then a former air raid warden told him the house had been bombed.

After painstakingly searching through archive pictures at the local museum,he found the evidence he was looking for,showing his flattened home.

Now Mr Proctor is claiming the surveyors who looked over his home were negligent.

"It is only since moving in that I discovered that my house has basically been put back together after it was bombed during the war" he said.

"I'm living in a place that 50-odd years ago had a great big hole in the front.

"It's been put back together but I do not want to live in a jig-saw.

"I was shocked that I paid £85,000 for a house that has suffered such damage.

"The surveyors should have told me about this before I made the biggest investment of my life.I have taken legal advice and I am planning to sue.

"There is no way I would have bought the house had I known its history."

In a letter,the company claims it is 'unrealistic' of Mr Proctor to expect a surveyor to have detected that the property had suffered bomb damage.