Trial for accountant accused of fixing mother’s will

An accountant accused of forging his dead mother’s will and lying about it on oath to get a cut of the family’s £160m fortune will stand trial next September. Girish Dahyabhai Patel, 65, allegedly used a blank document, pre-signed by his mother, to create a bogus will bequeathing him a £40m stake in the family’s palm oil plantation in Malaysia. Patel then perjured himself during High Court proceedings into a family dispute over the will, it is said. He appeared…