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Paul Keogh & Sara Odeen-Isbister

Man who claimed dad thought he was 'too dark-skinned' loses fight for £500K inheritance

A man who says his father never accepted him because he was 'too dark-skinned' has lost a court battle for a share of his dad's £500,000 inheritance.

Bill Pyburn subjected his son Sunny to 'horrific' physical and emotional abuse as a child because he believed the boy was not his, a court heard.

Sunny, now 38, was born after an affair his dad had with another woman, who was Asian. But because of his "very dark skin" as a child, Bill suspected he wasn't actually the father.

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