Judge rules man entitled to biological father’s farm

The High Court has ruled that a 57-year-old man is entitled to a 120-acre farm of a man who turned out to be his biological father.

William Naylor, otherwise Hoare, claimed he was promised the farm, which he had lived and worked on for more than 30 years, belonging to the late Michael Hoare.

However in a will executed by Mr Hoare some months before his death in 2007 aged 82, he bequeathed the farm to his daughter and Mr Naylor’s sister, Jean Maher, who had cared for the late Mr Hoare in his latter years.