The daughter of a 94-year-old man who was lured into a “predatory marriage” with a woman 39 years his junior has won a court battle over a £700,000 estate.
Jill Langley’s father, Robert Harrington, died in 2020 just 11 months after marrying Guixiang Qin, a 54-year-old former lawyer, who had come to Britain from China.
Qin, who worked as a translator and in a pub, told a judge that she met the “adorable” retired butcher after spotting a local newspaper advertisement that he placed in 2018 “offering free food and drink at Christmas”. She acknowledged that they were an unlikely pair, but adamantly argued that they fell in love.
But Harrington’s death caused a legal row over his final will, which was written only
