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Pannonian
07-18-2007, 22:47
Son’s fight for £10m bequest his deluded father left to the Tories (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article2093575.ece)

The son of a mentally deluded man who believed that Margaret Thatcher could save the world from a satanic plot is fighting the Conservative Party over who should get his father’s £10 million bequest.

The pharmaceutical mogul Branislav Kostic left a will giving his entire fortune to the Tories after deciding that his relatives were part of an international conspiracy of dark forces out to kill him.

The document was drawn up during the Thatcher era by a law firm with Conservative connections whose senior partner the sick man addressed as “Saint Anthony”, according to papers put before the High Court.
AntiochusIII
07-18-2007, 22:49
lol. Corruption and taking advantage of the mentally ill...

Sounds like daily business to me. :book:
Big King Sanctaphrax
07-18-2007, 22:52
Good job the Tories are doing the responsible thing and turning down this obviously mentally ill man's money, eh?

Oh wait...
ShadesPanther
07-18-2007, 22:55
Yeah I read about this in the paper today and I thought it was quite funny but then also sad aswell.



Good job the Tories are doing the responsible thing and turning down this obviously mentally ill man's money, eh?

Oh wait...

Would you turn down £8m?
But then We aren't hoping to be the future governing party ~:)
Big King Sanctaphrax
07-18-2007, 23:07
If taking it meant impoverishing a mentally ill man's unfortunate son, I'd like to think I would, yes.
KukriKhan
07-18-2007, 23:23
Don't UK wills start out: "I, Joe English, being of sound mind..."?
Big King Sanctaphrax
07-18-2007, 23:31
It's normal. I'm wondering who he got to witness it?
Pannonian
07-18-2007, 23:32
Don't UK wills start out: "I, Joe English, being of sound mind..."?

Mr Kostic had made a will in 1974 leaving his riches to his only son Zoran, at that time 17. But in 1987 he wrote to Mr Mellor: “I have to make my will . . . It is important to me that this wealth doesn’t finish up in the hands of destructive people — satanic monsters.” Mr Mellor declined to assist. Nevertheless, the court was told, Mr Kostic appears to have been introduced to the Tory-connected legal firm of Trowers & Hamlins through party channels. Mr Kostic met Sir Henry Lee, secretary to the Conservative Party Association, a section of Tory HQ that deals with legacies. The donor was introduced days later to Anthony Trower, an executive committee member of the association.

Mr Kostic signed a fresh will giving his fortune to the Conservatives but then asked for it to be destroyed because he would rather die intestate than leave them his money. Soon afterwards a final will was executed leaving Mr Kostic’s entire estate to the Conservatives following a long lunch at Simpson’s in the Strand.
InsaneApache
07-19-2007, 01:03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MpbMm0433I
KukriKhan
07-19-2007, 01:21
" WILD? I was LIVID!!"

:laugh4: :laugh4:
JR-
08-20-2007, 22:09
Don't UK wills start out: "I, Joe English, being of sound mind..."?
as far as i am aware.

i would be a bit pissed at daddy if he did this to me, but its tough luck.
Xiahou
08-20-2007, 22:40
So... this guy changed his will way back in 1987, and now 20 years later, he's dead and his son is trying to get him posthumously declared insane so that he can get his hands on his dad's money. That about cover it?
ShadesPanther
08-20-2007, 22:45
So... this guy changed his will way back in 1987, and now 20 years later, he's dead and his son is trying to get him posthumously declared insane so that he can get his hands on his dad's money. That about cover it?

Pretty much. Although he does sound a bit..........Eccentric to say the least.
rory_20_uk
08-21-2007, 12:48
When I was working in a Care of the Elderly ward I've had a patient whose family wanted a new will and for them to be declared mentally fit to sign.

The Consultant said she wasn't. The Registrar said she wasn't - and it was obvious to the two juniors she wasn't either. Did this stop the lawyer? No - he decided to try to bully the most junior doctor present to say that she was (which was me).

When there's money involved there's nothing much lawyers won't do.

~:smoking:
Banquo's Ghost
08-21-2007, 13:13
When there's money involved there's nothing much most of us won't ask our lawyers to do.


There, fixed. :wink:
Ronin
08-21-2007, 16:15
Good job the Tories are doing the responsible thing and turning down this obviously mentally ill man's money, eh?

Oh wait...

If political parties only accepted money from people of sound mind their yearly income would be about 1.50€ :laugh4: