Grandad with £500,000 will left grandkids £50 because they didn’t visit enough

An upset grandad who was disappointed his grandchildren didn’t visit him left them just £50 each in his will.

Frederick Ward Snr left almost all of his £500,000 fortune, including his flat worth £450,000, to two of his children when he died in 2020.

He discounted his dead son Fred Jr’s five daughters, saying he was upset they hadn’t visited him when he was hospitalised with a lung condition.

But after learning they’d been all but disinherited, Fred’s five granddaughters – Carol Gowing, Angela St Marseille, Amanda Higginbotham, Christine Ward and Janet Pett – sued and claimed they were entitled to a third of their late grandad’s money.