care giver guides the hand of her dieing patient to sign a fortune to her family

A Carer guided a dying millionaire’s hand to sign almost half his £1million fortune over to her family.Donna Henderson took advantage of retired London banker Marcel Chu, 73, as he lay helpless and vulnerable on his deathbed.

The wealthy former financier had already made a will in 2008, dividing 

his estate between his immediate family and a close friend, and leaving nothing 

to Henderson.

But that was before the carer “took control of his life and excluded his siblings” during the final year before he died.

The deathbed will, written on 9 May 2014, just two days before Marcel passed, left 40 per cent of Mr Chu’s wealth to Henderson and her kids.

But Judge Nigel Price has now ruled the document invalid and left the carer a crushing lawyers’ bill of £85,000.

Mr Chu suffered from Morvan’s syndrome, a rare auto-immune condition 

‘which caused memory loss and confusion’

Henderson was left with nothing after a handwriting expert concluded that the signature on the will was not Marcel’s.

Given his dire condition, the dying millionaire lacked mental capacity when the document was signed, the judge ruled.

Mr Chu made his fortune in banking before retiring to his £700,000-flat in in South Woodford, East London.

He had “a relatively close relationship” with his brothers, Allen and Stanley Chu, and sister Eva Young, for most of his life and had appointed them executors of the will he made in 2008.

Under that will, the siblings each got 26 per cent of his estate, whilst a niece and nephew got 14 per cent and a close friend 7 per cent.