Bishop denies influencing disputed will

Latin Tridentine Bishop Michael Cox has told the High Court he did not in any way influence a woman whose will is at the centre of a legal dispute.

He said Celine Murphy, 50 simply produced the handwritten will from an envelope and asked him to witness it and also entrusted it to him as executor.

He was addressing the third day of a hearing in which Ms Murphy’s sisters, Majella Rippington and Edel Banahan, and brother-in-law Shaun Rippington, seek to have the will declared invalid on grounds of alleged duress and undue influence.