Financial advisor cleared of forging French Resistance heroine’s will

A financial advisor to a heroine of the French Resistance was cleared of forging her will after a judge directed not guilty verdicts. Armande Cohen, 96, had won the Croix de Guerre for her bravery resisting the Nazis during the Second World War. Her accountant Barry Jefferd, 57, was said to have executed her will, between 1 March 2011 and 12 April 2012, when she had ‘no capacity to decide on her discharge arrangements or manage her own finances.’ Ms…