Thursday 30 April 2015

Pensioner left £500,000 fortune to man who cleared his gutters for free

Pensioner left £500,000 fortune to man who cleared his gutters for free
A builder who cleaned an elderly man’s gutters for free has been left a fortune in the man’s will.

Ronald Butcher, who was described as a ‘private and quiet man’, left builder Daniel Sharp £500,000 in his will, claiming a friendship was struck up between the two when Mr Sharp refused payment from the 75-year-old to clean his gutters.
However now the family of Mr Butcher, whose dead body lay undiscovered and decaying in his Enfield home for two months after his death, are disputing the will.
They claim Mr Sharp is ‘lying’ about his friendship with the pensioner, who altered his will to include Mr Sharp a few months before his death in 2013, and have asked Judge Leslie Anderson QC to revoke the will in favour of an earlier one which leaves his substantial fortune to them.

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