Lawyer’s will that favoured second wife is ruled invalid

A WILL that left a fortune estimated at up to £10 million (€15m) to a lawyer’s second wife was declared invalid yesterday after a bitter legal battle by the children of his first marriage.

Sisters Daliah and Donna Sherrington and their brother Ramon will now get a half interest in their father’s estate and will have the rest when the widow, Yvonne Sherrington, dies.

They argued in Britain’s High Court that the widow had pressured their father, who died aged 56 in a road crash in 2001, into making a will in which he was unaware of the contents.