Overview
- Master Katherine McQuail ordered the removal of Carole Jahme and Oscar Dunbar as executors of Dorothy Jahme’s estate and directed that a lawyer replace them.
- The judge said she was making no findings of fact but noted the material raised real questions and a potential claim with a real prospect of success.
- The estate, valued at about £400,000 and largely tied to a home in Axminster, Devon, remains undistributed after a prolonged deadlock between sisters Carole Jahme and Patricia Tonge.
- The court heard allegations of a four-month burial delay linked to Carole’s insistence on changing the death certificate and queries over transactions made while she held power of attorney, including a 2019 payment for sunglasses in Portugal.
- The court accepted there was no suggestion Oscar Dunbar was involved in financial mismanagement, and his removal was attributed to sustained inactivity, which he did not contest.