A young woman who married a lollipop man 50 years her senior attempted to forge his will after he had died.
Marsha Henderson married Newton Davies in 2004, but when he died in 2013 and left her just £25,000 of his £600,000 estate, she decided to take matters into her own hands to get hold of the rest of the cash.
Henderson forged a new will – which was full of mistakes including one glaring error in which Newton Davies was listed as female – and then claimed to have found it in their attic hidden in a Doritos crisp packet.
This bizarre claim was quickly rubbished by a judge, and the money rightfully went to Mr Davies’ only child from a previous relationship.
Closing the case, the judge said:
“It is inherently unlikely that the deceased would go into the loft in November 2011, find an empty Doritos bag and put his will in it.
“There is eccentric and there is ridiculous – and this is ridiculous.”
The majority of Mr Davies’ estate was made up of his £500,000 home in Wembley, North London, as well as £100,000 in cash, and although he died in 2013 the dispute was ongoing for around 4 years.
Mrs Henderson had lived in the house for this whole period of time, and was ordered to pay £42,000 in back rent to Mr Davies’ child as part of the settlement.