A man, Daniel Sharp, reportedly cleaned up Ronald Butcher’s gutters, refusing any payment, and the pair struck up a friendship. Butcher died at the age of 75 in March 2013 and left about $770,000, to Sharp — cutting out his entire family.
Butcher apparently made change to his will two months before he passed away, but his family disputes that the will reflects his “true last wish,” the London Evening Standard reports.
Butcher’s family, which includes his cousin Joyce Gilkerson, and Evelyn Hutchins and Peter Rogers, the children of a close friend who called Butcher “Uncle Ron,” wants Judge Lesley Anderson QC to invalidate the will in favor of an earlier version that names them as beneficiaries. Read the full story here ▶
