(BBC) A controversial Islamic preacher is not in talks to buy a Scottish island, the estate agents have confirmed.
Sheikh Yasser al-Habib was reportedly planning to buy Torsa in Argyll to make his own Sharia law-based Islamic “homeland.”
His organisation launched a £3.5m fundraiser earlier this year using videos thought to have been taken at a viewing after the island went on the market last autumn.
But the claims have been rejected by Savills, which is marketing the 270-acre property for offers over £1.5m.
Torsa is a trio of connected islands — Torsa, Torsa Beag and Eilean na h-Eaglaise — in the Slate Islands, an archipelago in the Inner Hebrides.
