A WOMAN challenging her newspaper owner sister's death-bed will has denied pestering her for money.
Dunfermline Press proprietor Deirdre Romanes left the bulk of her estate - estimated at more than £4 million - to a trust fund which would have benefited her ex-husband Iain, the Court of Session heard.
Mr Romanes had left her for another woman nine years earlier. But he had been at his former wife's side at her home in Edinburgh during Mrs Romanes' last days in May 2010, although other members of the family were kept at arm's length.
Sister Elizabeth Smyth, 61, from Ireland, raised an action in the Court of Session in Edinburgh, claiming her 60-year-old sister was too ill to know what she was doing and was easily led.
Judge Lord Glennie was shown a note from a meeting at Mrs Romanes' home which said Mrs Smyth had been trying to contact her sister for money. Mrs Smyth this had never been the case. The hearing continues.
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