Gold digger’s £600,000 will scam branded ‘ridiculous’ by judge
A FRAUDSTER married a school lollipop man 50 years her senior then forged his will in a “ridiculous” £600,000 fraud, pretending to find the document in an empty crisp bag in an attic, a court has heard.
Marsha Henderson married Newton Davies in 2004, when she was in her twenties and he was 76
Marsha Henderson married Newton Davies in 2004, when she was in her twenties and he was 76.
When he died in 2013, she discovered he had left her just £25,000 of his £600,000 fortune and decided to “orchestrate a fraud” in an attempt to bag more than £500,000, it was said.
Henderson concocted a fake will, which she bizarrely claimed to have found hidden inside an old Doritos bag in the attic of Mr Davies’ west London home.
Among the many errors in the document was one referring to the dead man as a woman.
Now a judge has slammed the plot and declared the will invalid, handing the bulk of Mr Davies’ estate to his only child.
She married a school lollipop man 50 years her senior then forged his will
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He also ordered Henderson to pay £42,000 in back rent for living in Mr Davies’ house during the dispute.
There is eccentric and there is ridiculous – and this is ridiculous
The story emerged at the Mayor’s and City of London Court, where Judge Nigel Gerald heard that Mr Davies had died owning a mortgage-free £500,000 home in Wembley, plus about £100,000 in cash.
Henderson attempted to claimed she had
Judge Gerald said: “It is inherently unlikely that the deceased would go into the loft in November 2011, find an empty Doritos bag and put his will in it.
“There is eccentric and there is ridiculous – and this is ridiculous.”