Farmer found dead in a slurry pit had changed his will the day of his death

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A 90-year-old man found dead in a farm slurry pit had changed his will that day, an inquest has heard.

Farmer, John Charles Barnett of Tybroughton near Whitchurch, just across the Welsh/Shropshire border, died on January 2, 2020.

However his son, Robert Barnett, said the improvement in his father in 2019 was enormous and he had been in excellent spirits. The jury heard that his will included an inheritance of £20,000 for farm worker and friend, Mr Nigel Byrne with the remainder of his estate was to be divided between his son and daughter.

He said he was at his own home during the evening when there was a knock at the door and a local man told him his father was in the lagoon, a couple of minutes away.

 

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