Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Breaking news: verdict in "Wicked stepmother" case

I had an inkling a verdict had come down in the Sherrington case when I got a series of hits this morning to my previous entry on the scandal. As you will remember, Daliah, 30, Donna, 27 and Ramon, 21 Sherrington were seeking to have their father's will overturned, after it left his £10m. fortune to his second wife Yvonne and left them with a total of just £50,000 from his life insurance policy. Sherrington died in a car accident in 2001 just 7 weeks after Yvonne's daughter from a previous marriage drew up this will.
And... the verdict is: Mr. Justice Lightman (who gets most of the exciting Jewish cases, it seems), has accepted the children's arguments that Richard Sherrington's second marriage was miserable, that signatures on the will were not properly witnessed and he had been pressured by his second wife into making it.
I'm told that wills are exceptionally difficult to overturn in English law; congrats, kids.
And that seems to bring to an end a series of high-profile, high-gossip factor British-Jewish court cases. Long may the lull last.

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