Hairdresser handed £390,000 in eccentric customer’s will is told by judge to give the money back
Friday, August 13th, 2010A hairdresser who inherited £380,000 from two elderly sisters will have to repay the money after a judge ruled that an earlier will leaving the estate to their family was binding.
Eccentric siblings Ethel Willson and Mabel Cook, described as like ‘peas in a pod’, drew up a joint will in 1991 leaving their possessions to their family and friends.
Mrs Cook died aged 83 in 1995, but in 2006 her younger sister dramatically changed the will, just two months before her own death aged 92, leaving all but £10,000 of the estate to their hairdresser Jill Fraser.
