Lottery winner’s generous gesture turns into family feud

WHAT started as an apparently generous gesture from a former butcher who became a lottery millionaire has ignited a family feud which has ended up in the courts.

Now Clyde Baxter claims his sister, Virginia, cheated him out of a mansion at the Australian resort where they both live and has launched a court action against her in Queensland.

Mr Baxter, of Gold Coast city, Queensland, is suing her over the AUS$1.3m (€775,000) house bought in her name in 2000.