By Daily Mail Reporter
Published: 02:17 GMT, 19 March 2019 | Updated: 02:24 GMT, 19 March 2019
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A statue of an angel by a celebrated sculptor is at the centre of a three-way battle between a film producer, a rich restaurateur and an art gallery.
The marble bust was created by Emily Young – who has been hailed as ‘Britain’s greatest living stone sculptor’ and has work outside St Paul’s Cathedral in London.
But the question of who owns the artwork has become the subject of a legal tug-of-war after it was put up for sale.
Millionaire restaurant owner Ernest Singh claims he bought Angel from film producer Andre Munroe Meyers for £110,000 in June 2015 and pocketed a written receipt.
The pair agreed to keep the sculpture (pictured, Emily Young with another of her creations) in Mr Meyers' home until a place was found to install it because a crane was required to move it
The two men agreed the sculpture would stay temporarily at Mr Meyers’ then £4million home in Chelsea, as ‘it required a crane and
