Elderly Norfolk rancher was forced by daughters to shift his will

Russell Jenkins , : {}

A rich rancher was plied with ethanol and sleeping tablets by his dual daughters prior to they forced him to shift his will, the High Court has been told.

George Key, 89, had regularly programmed to leave Hall Farm in Mundham, Norfolk, to his dual sons given they had worked on it given they were teenagers, it was alleged. But the justice was told that Jane Key and Mary Boykin plotted to feat their fathers pique at their mothers genocide days prior to to have him pointer a new will in that they were left �300,000 each.

Under the conditions of a will done in 2001 his daughters were due to be left �15,000 in between them.

Richard Key told the justice that he and his hermit John had worked on the farm, that forms a estimable estate, from the age of 15.

His father had lacked the compulsory mental genius when his sisters carried out their intentional plan in Dec 2006. Their poise was outrageous and improper, he said.

He referred to in his declare have a difference that the women doubled his fathers dose of sleeping tablets and poured him whisky, withdrawal him confused. He would not have accepted what he was you do given he was stricken with pique after the genocide of his mother after 65 years of marriage.

Mr Key said: It did not appear to have a difference to them to force my father to have a will, that was the last thing he would have wanted.

Simon Redmayne, the brothers counsel, pronounced that the aged rancher had turn increasingly inattentive in the years prior to his genocide in 2008. Mary Frost, who worked at the plantation as a made at home help, said: Mr Key pronounced to me, The girls got me to pointer something but I do not know what it was for.

John Ross Martyn, warn for the sisters, referred to that there was usually singular justification to await the allegations. He pronounced that Mr Key had dictated to give his dual daughters �300,000 as he had already bequeathed land value an homogeneous total to his sons.

Mrs Boykin, giving evidence, denied the allegations. She said: Im an honest, decent chairman and so was my father and he longed for to put things right. The box continues.