![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/woman-sues-sister-for-500k-for-cutting-her-out-of-mums-will-during-lockdown/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/0_PAY-JulieSinclair2.jpg&description=Two sisters have faced off in London's High Court after one accused the other of using the Covid lockdown to control their mother and cut her out of her will worth £500,000Julie Sinclair outside the High Court after the hearing with her sisterTwo sisters are facing off in a "seriously unusual" half a million pound court battle, with one claiming the other used the Covid lockdown to control their mother and cut her out of their late mum's will. Mum-of-five Julie Sinclair says her childless sister Helyn Sinclair told her on WhatsApp: "You have f**ked over my life for too long." A week later, in June 2021, their mum signed a new will leaving nearly all her £500,000 estate to Helyn. Helyn was living with and caring for mum Betty at her home in Selsey, West Sussex, at the time, and Julie claims the situation gives rise to "suspicions" Helyn was behind the will and the sisters' mum didn't know what she was signing when she wrote Julie out. She is now asking judge Deputy Master Bowles for an order upholding an earlier 2015 will which split the estate equally between the sisters. But the judge last week refused to hand her victory, because neither Helyn nor the 2015 will had appeared before him at London's High Court. Betty Sinclair's home in Selsey, West Sussex ( Champion News) The court heard Betty died aged 89 on July 22 2021, around a month after making her controversial new will. Helyn was living with Betty at her £500,000 house in East Street, Selsey, at the time of her death and had been a live-in carer for her mum since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, Julie's barrister Adam Smith-Roberts told the judge. "As a result of the global Covid-19 pandemic, from around March 2020 onwards Helyn lived at the deceased's property," he said. "From the point at which Helyn moved into the property, the deceased had very little contact with anyone else, including other family members. "Helyn was the only point of contact the deceased had with the outside world and she contr){kind=link}
Two sisters have faced off in London’s High Court after one accused the other of using the Covid lockdown to control their mother and cut her out of her will worth £500,000
Two sisters are facing off in a “seriously unusual” half a million pound court battle, with one claiming the other used the Covid lockdown to control their mother and cut her out of their late mum’s will.
Mum-of-five Julie Sinclair says her childless sister Helyn Sinclair told her on WhatsApp: “You have f**ked over my life for too long.”
A week later, in June 2021, their mum signed a new will leaving nearly all her £500,000 estate to Helyn.
Helyn was living with and caring for mum Betty at her home in Selsey, West Sussex, at the time, and Julie claims the situation gives rise to “suspicions” Helyn was behind the will and the sisters’ mum didn’t know what she was signing when she wrote Julie out.