Overview

• Bhavenetta Stewart-Brown is contesting her father’s August 2021 will in the High Court on grounds of capacity and undue influence
• The contested document awards the £600,000 Harrow family home solely to eldest daughter Anju Patel while leaving Bhavenetta and their brother Piyush Patel just £250 each
• Stewart-Brown alleges Laxmikant Patel could not properly read the English-language will prepared by Vijaykant Patel and did not ‘know and approve’ its terms after his lung cancer diagnosis
• Anju Patel and executor Vijaykant Patel maintain the will reflects Laxmikant’s genuine wishes after he expressed mistrust of his other children and insisted he had not forgotten them
• An earlier October 2019 will had divided the £600,000 estate equally among the three siblings with a modest extra gift to Anju, highlighting the stark shift in his later testament