When they died, Miss Cook, 54, benefited to the tune of more than £1million from each woman. Miss Cook had insisted in court that she was not living in a ‘threesome’ with the two rich, elderly Jeans. A decade later Miss Cook took her second elderly female lover, Dr Weddell, and they became civil partners in 2007. Before long, Miss Cook was living with both Dr Weddell and Miss Southworth in the same cottage in the centre of Newport on the island. Her will, written on the Isle of Wight three months earlier, left the bulk of her £5.3million estate to Miss Cook.

Source: Daily Mail October 25, 2019 21:09 UTC