Widow and half-brother row over estate

AN English judge will have to decide a legal battle over the £30 million fortune of a wealthy Arab.

Jewish air stewardess Lesley June Al-Bassam, who has a certificate of marriage to Abdulaziz Al-Bassam at Westminster Register Office in 1986, claims that, under English law, she is entitled to his whole estate following his death in November 2001.

But the dead man's half-brother, Abdullah Al-Bassam, says the marriage was a sham and the will was invalid.