He sacrificed a normal childhood spent playing with his friends to labour on the family farm, and was “groomed” to take over from his dad, starting when he was given farm-themed toys as a boy, he claimed. Peter had insisted it was always his parents’ intention that he would inherit the entire family holding, sited around College Farm and Whitleather Lodge Farm, near Huntingdon. Stephen Jourdain QC, for Marian, said she accepted that in the past there was a “family understanding” that Peter would probably inherit his parents’ farming interests. But this was never “set in stone” and he was always likely to have to pay his sisters something for this windfall, the barrister said. “The farm would be handed over to him as his inheritance and to do with as he pleased.

Source: Daily Mirror March 21, 2020 00:27 UTC