
Five granddaughters who were each left £50 from their ‘disappointed’ grandad in his will are now facing a hefty legal bill.
Frederick Ward Snr, who died in 2020, all but cut out his dead son Fred Jnr’s five adult children from his £500,000 will because he was ‘upset’ they didn’t visit him often during his later years.
The five granddaughters – Carol Gowing, Angela St Marseille, Amanda Higginbotham, Christine Ward and Janet Pett – were each handed £50 in an envelope, and decided to sue, claiming they deserved their late dad’s one-third share of the will.
But their case was thrown out of the High Court after judge…