A sister has been disinherited from her late father's £1M will after a brother was only written out of it - because of lies she told about him. Devious Sonia Whittle turned her father Gerald Whittle against his son David with a string of false accusations shortly before his death, a court heard.
A judge was told Sonia falsely labelled her brother and his wife as "psychopaths" and "criminals" to their elderly dad in a "disgraceful" attempt to cut them out of the will. The court also heard she failed to tell David of their father's death and hid the £1m inheritance of antiques and classic cars from him.
And in a landmark ruling delivered this week, a High Court judge has ruled the will "invalid" on the grounds that it was obtained fraudulently and through undue influence. Known as ‘fraudulent calumny’, it is only the third court ruling of its kind since 2007.
