Brother WINS bitter £1million will row against sister after she falsely claimed he was a 'psychopath & criminal'

A DAUGHTER has lost out on her share of her dad's £1million estate after a court ruled she had lied to him about her brother to cut him out of the will. 

David Whittle took his sister Sonia to court after she made a series of false allegations about him to their dad Gerald shortly before his death.


A court heard that Sonia failed to tell David about their dad's death from leukaemia, and hid the inheritance of antiques and classic cars from him. 

The feuding siblings have finally had a line drawn under the fighting, with the High Court issuing a landmark ruling earlier this week. 

A judge was told Sonia falsely labelled her brother and his wife as “psychopaths” and “criminals” to their elderly dad in a “disgraceful” attempt to cut them out of the will.

District Judge Tony Woodburn ruled the will as “invalid” on the grounds that it was obtained fraudulently and through undue influence – called “fraudulent calumny”.

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It is only the third ruling of its kind since 2007, with DJ Woodburn branding it as an “appaling” attempt to cut the right beneficiary out of the will. 

Dad-of-two Gerald, 92, died in December 2016 after appointing his daughter Sonia and her partner as executors of his will. 

He wanted to leave his son his old antique cars, but left everything else to Sonia and Ray, after a trainee legal executive met with Gerald and his daughter.

During the meeting, Sonia told the legal executive that her brother and his wife were “psychopaths and criminals” who had stolen large sums of money from Julie’s mother.

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Bristol Crown Court heard that Sonia claimed her brother had been looking for Geralds bank details while he was in hospital, and had stolen his antiques and classic cars. 

She also claimed that the couple had forced their way into Gerald’s home before police issued a harassment order against them. 

The judge said: “It is clear Sonia immediately launched into an assassination of the characters of both the claimant and of his wife.

“Having rubbished her brother's character, Sonia then left to take Gerald's dog for a walk.

"It was against this immediate background that Gerald apparently proceeded to give instructions to Ms Spanner for his will.”

Sonia denied fraudulent calumny, but admitted making negative comments towards her brother in the belief that they were true. 

Retired atomic engineer David has since been given the entirety of his fathers estate from the court. 

He said that he had a “good relationship” with his father and had visited him since the death of his mum in 2005 “at least weekly”.

'THIEVING LITTLE B*****D'

The siblings had an angry call in October 2016, where Sonia accused her brother of being a “thieving little b*****d” and a “pimp, living off immoral earnings of a prostitute.”

David Whittle and his wife obtained disclosure and barring service certificates to prove that neither had ever had a criminal conviction.

In giving his verdict, Judge Woodburn said: “On all of the evidence presented to me, it is abundantly clear that the aspersions cast on the characters of both David and his wife, are not merely unproven, but, I find, are completely false.

The judge ruled Sonia “attempted and succeeded in falsely and unduly influencing” Gerald to marginalise or exclude David from a substantial share in the estate.

Speaking after the case, Amanda Noyce, who advised David Whittle said: “The team at Royds Withy King systematically disproved all the allegations that Sonia had made about her brother.

“We found evidence the antiques she alleged had been stolen by David, in fact had been sold by local auctioneers at Sonia`s instruction.

“David had worked, until retirement, in a highly vetted position and Disclosure and Barring Service certificates proved that neither he nor his wife had ever been involved in any illegality.

“This has been a terrible ordeal for David and Julie, who have endured intense emotional trauma on every level.

“They were very close to Gerald, saw him very regularly and were central to his care in his later years. Sonia sought to poison her brother's relationship with their father and, furthermore, to cut contact between Gerald and David right at the very end, when Gerald was most vulnerable and most in need of his son's love and care.

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“She even refused to allow the medical authorities and social services to let David know when their father had died.

"It was not until two months after Gerald`s death that David eventually found out – after much increasingly frantic searching and investigation.”

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