There’s nothing funnier than a disappointed granddad grudging from beyond the grave, and that’s exactly what this story about 91-year-old Frederick Ward Snr is all about.

Frederick Ward Snr sparked a family row after leaving almost all of his £500k fortune, including his flat worth £450,000, to his children Terry and Susan when he died in 2020, completely discounting his dead son Fred Jr’s five children.

According to his lawyers, Frederick Ward Snr was upset that his five grandkids hadn’t visited him after he’d been hospitalised three times with a lung condition. I mean, you’d expect your grandkids to at least check in on you once in a while, especially when you’re in hospital and especially if they expect to get a cut of the inheritance, right?

Shockingly, after Frederick Ward Snr died and his grandkids realised they’d been gifted £50 to split between them, all five of them – 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. The absolute cheek!

In fact, when Fred Snr’s will was read out by son Terry after his death, a shouting match broke out – which was recorded and played to the court – when it was revealed the five sisters had been all but cut out. A masterclass in posthumous grudging by Fred Snr!

Sadly for them, High Court judge Master James Brightwell ruled that Fred Snr’s will was ‘entirely rational’, adding that the grandchildren had ‘very limited contact’ with their ‘disappointed’ grandfather.

Throwing out their case, Master Brightwell said: ‘Some may take the view that, as a general proposition, when a testator’s child has predeceased him, he generally ought to leave an equal share of his residue to that child’s issue. However, the decision not to do so and to split the residue and thus the bulk of the estate between his surviving children can hardly be said to be provision which no reasonable testator could make.’

The sisters argued that the will was ‘invalid’ and their Uncle Terry and Aunt Susan had ‘unduly influenced’ their grandfather into changing his will to give them their share of his estate. Although you’d think it was probably more to do with the fact they couldn’t be bothered with him when he was alive, and proved what vultures they are by popping out of the woodwork as soon as he’d passed away.

Unlucky, ladies. Not only did their legal claims completely and utterly fail, they probably racked substantial legal bills in the process too. On the brightside, that £50 will probably buy a nice Domino’s or two. Cheers, granddad!

For the window cleaner who gave his dead brother’s £367,000 to the homeless and was then ordered to pay it back, click HERE.