Two friends of Amy Winehouse “deliberately concealed” that they sold dozens of her personal items at auction after her death, barristers for the singer’s father have told the High Court.

Mitch Winehouse, acting as the administrator of his daughter’s estate, is suing her stylist Naomi Parry and friend Catriona Gourlay for hundreds of thousands of pounds over claims they profited from selling dozens of items at auctions in the United States in 2021 and 2023.

Ms Winehouse died aged 27 from alcohol poisoning in July 2011.

Lawyers for Mr Winehouse told a trial on Monday that the two women did not inform him they were selling the items, and the legal proceedings were his “only means of obtaining answers”.

Ms Parry and Ms Gourlay are defending the claim, with their barristers stating that the

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