Family of car boot king who fathered 19 children caught in £43m battle for fortune
A multimillioner car boat king of 19 children will fight in the center of a 43 million pounds of family.
Richard Scott, who died at the age of 81 in 2018, made a reserve of the UK’s second largest boat fair from the “wide” Cheshire farm where ITV was shot ‘car boot challenge’.
Mr. Scott’s eldest son and “favorite” man Scott – his father was described as the “golden child” – he was promised to sacrifice his life side by side from the age of nine and will be one day.
However, after the death of Adam’s mother, Richard again married Jennifer Scott, who was even 28 years old in 2016, and then wrote Adam from his request, and he controlled Jennifer’s property and agricultural areas, saying that he could be up to 43 million pounds.
Now the 62 -year -old man sues his 60 -year -old stepmother as the ruler of Richard’s property and claims that he wasn’t in his right mind when he signed his father’s two final wills.
He also said that his father would have the right to take over the farm after his death, and that he had sacrificed everything to commit the “life of hard and ruthless physical work” behind these promises.
However, when Jennifer’s lawyers tried to cut Richard after Richard’s relationship with his father, he claimed that he knew exactly what he was doing when he was first born.
They also say that Richard has no claim for his father’s property based on alleged promises of a land and property of over 10 million pounds before his death.
London’s Supreme Court, “Mercurial character” Richard, running giant and lucrative car boots before moving to the sales of “a ruthless, single -minded and extremely successful businessman,” formed a valuable property empire “heard.
A surprising 19 child father had his father, Jennifer lawyers, six of them with his first wife and six illegitimate children during this intercourse, then with Jennifer, who worked as a cleaner when the couple came together for the first time in 1994.
In 2016, Richard and Jennifer finally married in a controversial marriage where Adam tried to prevent the continuation of the wedding, and claimed that his father had no marriage capacity.
“Alex Troup KC for Jennifer, justice Richards’a, said,” April 22, 2016 Adam’s Registration Office participated in the Registration Office and Richard’ın claim to claim that the capacity to be a common ground. ” He said.
“This led to Richard’s interview with four registration officers and a lawyer from the local council, all of them are pleased that they have the capacity to marry. The wedding continued.”
When he died of cancer, Richard, Cheshire, Cheshire, was valued around 7 million pounds, but claimed to be a “large amount of land” that claimed to be worth 43 million pounds according to Jennifer’s proposals and development potential.
Adam’s lawyers, for more than 40 years of his father’s “wide, spread” farm, and in a part of the car boat sales to manage the sales of the car, and the land will pay the probey value of the basis of inheritance, and then should be divided between many brothers, he said.
In 2016, however, only months after his second marriage, Richard signed two wills, which terrified Adam and left Jennifer as a performer and great beneficiary under his control.
Jennifer’s two sons Gordon and William Redgrave-Scott and Adam’s sister Rebecca Horley were the beneficiaries of the latest wills.
The man is now challenging the validity of these two ultimate wills and that he does not have mental capacity at his father.
It also brings an alternative claim in accordance with the registered Estoppel law – a legal solution that can be used when promised to transfer to someone else at a later date – to promise later.
Constance McDonnell KC, the judiciary for the judiciary, said: “A relationship between a father and a son in the heart of this case, the common commitment to the family farm in the Cheshire, and the recognition of his son’s desire to commit to the hard and ruthless physical business life by the father.
“This case is an example of a paradigm of a private child’s claim for a farm in accordance with a parent’s inheritance promise.
“The man is looking for a remedy for the provision of his father Richard on 23 June 1995 and implementing the promises given to Adam.
“In this respect, the man would receive a 40 -year tennivity of his father’s farm and the option to buy the farm in probey.
He continued: “Richard promised to grow the farm in succession, and Adam’s dedication to the farm and the loss of marriage and the loss of family holidays, including extraordinary sacrifices, including relying on these promises, there was no surprise.
“Adam’s work has enabled the farm to fulfill its own expenses, including private school fees for children with Richard’s use of Richard and to re -invest in the farm, including private school fees.
“In addition, despite Richard’s ongoing health problems like 1976, he allowed the farm to function with smooth and minimum labor costs.”
He said that the evidence that supports Adam’s claim about promises should be “very comprehensive” and whether the judge’s father returns to them is “indisputable”.
“In a case like today, where the decisions that change work and life have been given by relying on a promise, the court’s conscience should be shocked,” he said.
Richard’s mental state while doing 2016 Wills, the lawyer, Richard was diagnosed with a kind of dementia in 2011 and said he could not communicate when they were signed.
“Richard’s medical records contain clear evidence of the ability to have eroded insight by decision -making and dementia.” He said.
“The man states that he would have no assumptions in favor of his father’s knowledge and the approval of the will of September and December 2016.
“He tried to communicate with written and gestures, but he couldn’t write more than a few words or numbers. Jennifer acted as Richard’s ‘translator’ to explain what he wanted.
“Richard died seven years ago. Since then, the parties have been locked in the war, and although they occasionally left hostility, peace was not achieved.
“In 1995, nothing could be nothing but Richard’s plan – ‘Golden Child’ – that they would continue with the farming business where they were dedicated, and that their other children would be provided with a collective payment paid to the property in exchange for rent or farm.
He continued: “The man has to rely on the court to correct this incredible result.”
However, Mr. Troup, representing Jennifer, told the judge that Richard had good reasons to cut Adam.
In September 2013, Richard’s GP, a psychiatrist, said that the police and two nurses visited Pear Tree Farm in order to divide him into sections under the 1983. Mental Health Law.
“But when they met Richard, they created the view that it has capacity and therefore did not devote it to sections.” He said.
“Jennifer’s request for freedom of knowledge announced that this visit was asked by the man representing Richard’s capacity to social services.
“In July 2015, the man claimed that Richard beat Jennifer and children to social services. This finally caused an investigation of closed social services, but the children were placed in a protection record they found sad.
“On April 22, 2016, the Adam joined the Registration Department and claimed that Richard was deprived of his marriage capacity. This led to Richard’s interview with four registration officers and a lawyer from the local council, all of them were pleased that he had the capacity to marry. The wedding continued.
“Richard was a short -tempered, authoritarian father who waited for his children to work hard on the farm and waiting for opposition. He was described as ‘control and unpredictable’ by his children.”
Regarding the claim of property Estoppel, the lawyer said that the judge had given land and property by his father before his death.
“It is clear that Richard wanted his children to benefit from the fruits of their workers, and in this context, Jennifer’s first marriage treated his children on a basis with his children.” He said.
“The man worked for his father on the farm and did it more than his brothers in the following years, but he was aware of Richard’s Mercurial character.
“Richard knew that he had five more children with his first marriage and Jennifer had seven children, and they all had inheritance expectations.
“The man was awarded Richard, including lifelong gifts for important land parcels that prove that he was extremely valuable.
“The man relys on a series of alleged expressions made by Richard. Any explanation made by Richard in the early years of Adam was not enough clear expressions intended to be taken seriously. Adam himself was just a hope… ”
“Richard was an unreliable character by nature, which was to break the promises.”
The hearing continues.
