After being accused of having her ‘hands in the till,’ a Morris dancer who was left in control of her late parents’ £2 million wealth was removed as executor of the estate.
After Rosina and Charles died in 2012, Dana Conlin and her brother Eugene were assigned to look after their multimillion-pound estates in south Wales.
The will commanded them to manage the family fortune until the children of their deceased brother Daniel were old enough to inherit their combined third of the estate.
Dana and Eugene, who had a falling out in 2017, were accused of manipulating the estate for ‘personal gain,’ and their nieces and nephews have now filed a lawsuit against them.
They put Dana’s son up for free in an estate home and used the estate credit card for personal expenses.
Dana devalued her parents’ six-bedroom mansion by £175,000 while living there, according to the High Court, by attracting buyers with “smelly trash” and “filled ashtrays.”
A judge in the London court has now removed her and her brother as executors and trustees. Dana was given a £90,000 costs bill.
The siblings’ mother Rosina died in 2012 and their father Charles died the following year, leaving mirror wills, according to the court.
Bell House, in Magor, Caldicot, which consists of 11 business units and is worth an undisclosed seven-figure value, was among their’significant assets.’
They also left £1.2 million in development land and the couple’s Penhow home, White Heather, which ultimately sold for £650,000.
Only Dana and Eugene are still living from Charles and Rosina’s four children.
Shannon Roberts, 27, Kitty Conlin, 25, and Ethan Conlin, 21, are Daniel’s three children, each of whom is entitled to a third of the fortune.
However, Dana and Eugene, who were each left a quarter share, are the executors and trustees of the estate and have yet to cash in the assets after a major falling out in 2017.
Their nieces and nephews took them to court this month, accusing them of mismanaging the estate and using it to meet personal expenses, despite the fact that each had already received £50,000 of their inheritance.