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Cider boss who torched brother’s car after will dispute handed £875k bill from court fight

The Independent·Richard Gittins·about 1 month ago
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A former cider company boss who torched his mineral water tycoon brother's car after being left less than him in their parents' wills has been hit with a massive £875,000 court bill after suing and losing. Alastair Bowerman, 57, went to court after being left a one-third share of the £230,000 cash his parents left in their wills, whilst brother Ben Bowerman, 60, got cash and their shares in the 460-acre family farm on Dorset's Isle of Purbeck, which includes a Grade-I listed medieval manor house and is home to a lucrative mineral water spring. Jean and John Bowerman, the brother's parents, had originally made wills in 1988, splitting their cash between Alastair and third brother David, to balance out the fact that Ben was to be handed the family farm business at Godlingston Manor, near Swanage. John's estate was at the time expected to be boosted by inheritance money from his own father which he stipulated should also be distributed in a way that favoured Alastair and David.…

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