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Former head girl 'faked will' of headmistress to inherit her £4.2m estate

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Published date01 April 2022
Leigh Voysey says Maureen Renny left a £1.65million seven-bed, detached home to her rather than to relatives to stop it being sold to developers

Hill House in Much Hadham, Herts, was until 1998 the site of The Barn School where Ms Voysey was a pupil from 1987. She claims Mrs Renny "always favoured her" and she "reconnected" by chance years later while working as a carer.

But Mrs Renny's relatives are fighting Ms Voysey's bid to claim the fortune.

Documents lodged at London's High Court say Mrs Renny died aged 82 in January 2020, four months after the contested will had been made. In a 2016 will she left her estate to her cousins Gillian Ayre, Angela Eastwood and Susan Vickers, and her stepson's two children.

Ms Voysey, 42, says Mrs Renny dictated a replacement will to her and asked a friend to sign it as her sight was poor.The mum of one adds Mrs Renny knew she "loved" the old schoolhouse and decided to leave her everything, cutting out her family. In papers, Ms Voysey says she visited her as a carer and then as a friend: "Mrs Renny remembered exactly who I was, even though it was 25 years since I'd left.

"Mrs Renny told me that she'd been asking about me. The whole experience that day was very touching. I visited Mrs Renny [as a friend] when I could...approximately three to four times a year."

She said Mrs Renny asked two of

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