Brother's Lawsuit Backfires, Loses Farm & Fortune

0:00On May 1st, a former cider company boss named Alistair Bowerman just got slammed with an $875,000 court bill after, suing his brothers over their parents' wills and losing big time. The 57-year-old thought he got short-changed on the 230,000 pounds in cash left behind, while his brother Ben scored the family farm and its mineral water business. Back in 1988, the original will split the cash between Alistair and another brother David, leaving the 460 acre. Dorset farmed to Ben, but mom and dad redid them in 1999, giving Ben equal cash and more farm shares after handing him most earlier. Alistair wasn't having it, claiming conspiracy and fraud. His Dorset cider bizz folded in 2005, and things got heated. He even got convicted of arson in 2015 for torching Ben's car. Landing or restraining order. In a four-day high court trial last year, Alistair went solo against Ben and David as a state executor.

1:01He swayed the judge that dad was too sick to get the 1999 will, but it was too late. Over 18 years since dad's death in two. Thousand-four in a decade passed moms in 2012. Now those massive costs from Ben's 707,000 pounds, plus another 100,000 wipe-out Alistair's whole inheritance, and then some. He skipped the cost hearing unrepresented, leaving the family feud's tab squarely on him as the farm keeps flowing with that spring water gold.