Farmer, 90, found dead in slurry pit changed his will that day trends now

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A 90-year-old farmer found dead in a slurry pit had changed his will earlier that same day, an inquest has heard.

John Charles Barnett's overturned mobility scooter was found on the edge of a lagoon in January 2020. His body was found by a diver at Hully Farm near Whitchurch, Shropshire.

An inquest at Ruthin in Denbighshire, North Wales, heard that the pensioner made a will in 2014, leaving his farm and some land to Nigel Byrne, who had worked on the dairy farm.

The hearing was told that Mr Barnett revoked the will and made a new one the day he died, leaving £20,000 to Mr Byrne and dividing the remainder of his estate between his son and daughter.