Carol Scott, 77, left home at 19, building a career and family, but her brother John Jones, 75, lived with their mother Muriel Jones his whole life until her death in April 2017 in rural Wiltshire.
A daughter is suing her 'sicknote' brother - who never left their parents' home - after their 'vulnerable' mother left her entire £500,000 fortune to him.
Now Carol, backed by other brother Peter, is suing John as beneficiary and executor of their mother's will. Judge Simon Monty KC, at Central London County Court, heard that Muriel lived with her husband Ronald in Ripley, Surrey, close to Carol and Peter, until 2012. Carol, in the witness box, told the judge that she was shocked and 'upset' by the news of the move, which she put down to her brother John's 'influence' over their increasingly 'frail' mother.
She wants to uphold a 2010 will, which gives John a lifetime right to live in his mother's home, but then leaves it equally between Carol, fourth sibling Carl Jones, who is not part of the court claim, and Bronwen. Carol told him: 'For the last couple of years, yes. But they were living with her before that. She looked after them.
'John has never been independent. I agreed at the time that he could live in the house until he died. That's what mum wanted for John - to be safe and have a roof over his head.'John had full control. I feel that he drip fed her slowly. I believe it was done that way. 'The deceased...was elderly and vulnerable. A 'drip drip' situation may be highly effective in sapping will.
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