Ex-head girl ‘faked teacher’s will to get £4,200,000 estate’

The trainer’s household mentioned the desire was written up after she had a stroke and was ‘delusional’ (Image: Champion Information)

A former head woman inherited her headmistress’s £4.2 million property after the aged lady wrote a brand new will months earlier than she died, a court docket heard.

Leigh Voysey, 42, denies fraudulently acquiring the sprawling Hertfordshire property — as soon as the personal Barn College, which she attended from aged eight in 1987.

She mentioned Maureen Renny had ‘all the time favoured her’ and that she ‘reconnected’ along with her previous mentor by probability over the past three years of her life.

However Mrs Renny’s household accused Ms Voysey of faking the 2019 will, which was drawn up after she had a stroke and was ‘delusional’.

4 months later, in January 2020, she died, aged 82.

A earlier will from 2016 divided Hill Home between cousins Gillian Ayre, Angela Eastwood and Susan Vickers, and the youngsters of Mrs Renny’s stepson.

In paperwork lodged with the Excessive Court docket, mum-of-one Ms Voysey mentioned she bonded along with her former head after visiting her as a carer and buddy from 2016.

‘Mrs Renny remembered precisely who I used to be, despite the fact that it was 25 years since I’d left her faculty,’ she mentioned.

Leigh Voysey, 42, claims trainer Maureen Renny all the time thought of her a favorite (Image: Champion Information)

Angela Eastwood, cousin of the late Maureen Renny, stood to achieve a proportion of the property within the earlier will (Image: Champion Information)

‘After reconnecting, I visited Mrs Renny once I may… about three to 4 occasions a 12 months.

‘Throughout one among my visits, she requested me about The Barn, i.e. Hill Home, and I mentioned I cherished it.

‘Mrs Renny mentioned to me “I hope it by no means will get constructed on.”’

Ms Voysey mentioned she wrote her ‘distant blood family’ out of her will as a result of she feared they'd promote the previous schoolhouse to builders.

However Kate Selway QC, for the household, mentioned: ‘It's their case that the 2016 will was the deceased’s final true will.

‘The 2019 will is invalid as a result of it was procured by the claimant’s fraudulent conduct.’

She mentioned Ms Voysey had ‘no ongoing acquaintance’ with Mrs Renny. She had ‘one lunchtime shift’ as a carer in 2016 and ‘by no means visited [her] once more’.

She added: ‘The deceased by no means signed the 2019 will. It was accomplished within the claimant’s handwriting.’

The civil case continues.

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