Daughters plied father with drink to sign new willcourt told

By Aislinn Laing and Caroline Gammell Published: 6:29PM GMT twenty-two February 2010

Jane Key and Mary Boykin allegedly orchestrated a tract to aim exposed George Key whilst he was lamentation for his mother of 65 years, who had died a couple of days earlier.

While he was still "confused and disinhibited", they done him pointer the new will, the justice was told.

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Brothers Richard and John Key are fighting their sisters in court, claiming that their father longed for them to get the bulk of the estate.

If they are successful, the dual women will share a singular payout of �15,000 that was creatively allotted to them in a 2001 will.

In his evidence, Richard Key pronounced his father had dictated to leave Hall Farm in Mundham, Norfolk to him and his hermit given they had worked in the family commercial operation given they were 15.

Describing his sisters as "disgusting", he pronounced they had devised a intentional plan in 2006 to gain their 89-year-old fathers signature.

"They really doubled the sleeping tablets to hit him out, and this bottle of blockade was being kept in his residence for multiform years and it was not often emptied the subsequent time I went there.

"It didn"t appear to have a difference to them to force my father to have a will, the last thing he would have wanted. I knew my father, he wouldn"t have longed for that."

Richard Key, who is in his 60s, pronounced his father was unqualified of bargain what had happened, given he was so stricken by the genocide of his 85-year-old mother Sybil.

Simon Redmayne, representing the brothers, pronounced Mr Key was apropos increasingly inattentive in the years prior to his genocide at the age of 91 in Aug 2008 and had mental recall problems.

Mary Frost, who spotless for the aged farmer, said: "Mr Key pronounced to me, "The girls got me to pointer something but I don"t know what it was for."

John Ross Martyn, representing Miss Key and Mrs Boykin, pronounced there was "limited evidence" to behind up Richard Key"s allegations opposite his sisters.

He pronounced not usually did Mr Key know what he was doing, but that it was ideally judicious for him to leave his daughters �300,000 each given he had left the homogeneous value of land to his sons.

Mr Ross Martyn pronounced Mr Key longed for to provide his 4 young kids equally.

Giving evidence, Mrs Boykin certified she could be forthright, but denied she was "bossy" or "waspish".

Denying the allegations done by her brother, she said: "I did not lead my father; I definitely repudiate ever heading my father; I wouldn"t do that.

"Honesty is what I mount for. I"m an honest, decent chairman and so was my father and he longed for to put things right. There was no unjustified change on my part.

"My father was not a chairman who would do something he didn"t instruct to do. He was intensely realistic up until his death."

Mrs Boykin pronounced her father was not as dissapoint over the genocide of his mother as had been suggested, and was some-more endangered about who would see after him.

"The design of this Darby and Joan attribute is not right," she said.

"There was longevity yes, but it wasn"t Darby and Joan. There was a lot of annoy in between them."

The conference continues.