Wealthy pensioner Robert Harrington died in May 2020 just 11 months after marrying his carer Guixiang Qin who had moved from China and worked as a trained lawyer and translator.
Robert Harrington died just 11 months after marrying his carer Guixiang Qin. His will, made two months prior to his death, left his £680,000 estate to Mrs QinA Chinese translator accused of luring a millionaire into a 'predatory marriage' before he died has lost £200,000 in inheritance to his daughter after a High Court battle.
Now after a trial, the will has been declared invalid, with a judge finding that Mrs Qin exerted 'undue influence' and 'control' over Mr Harrington and his finances after rewriting his will with her 'guiding hand'. Mr Harrington's daughter Jill Langley arriving at Central London County Court. She had claimed Mrs Qin lured her father into a 'predatory marriage' and 'dumped him in the cheapest possible grave' once she 'had got all his money'
Advertisement Mrs Langley would have benefitted under the terms of a previous 2012 will which named her as her father's ultimate heir, before it was rewritten in 2020. Soon after the funeral, she received a bombshell letter, stating: 'this letter will be the last contact I ever attempt to make.' Mrs Qin denied the claims, saying she received about £100,000 from him and telling the judge she and Mr Harrington had embarked on 'a loving and sexual relationship' and that he 'wanted to look after her'.
The pair enjoyed a whirlwind romance, she explained, meeting for the first time in January 2019, moving in together in February and with Mr Harrington proposing the following month. 'Accordingly, I find that there are multiple and frequent payments that have not been properly explained and are, therefore, at a minimum suspicious - those made when the deceased was in hospital or had just been discharged particularly so.'
As a result of his confused state, he lacked sufficient 'testamentary capacity' when he made his last will in March 2020, the judge ruled, also finding that there was no proof he 'knew and approved' the contents of the will.
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