There’s no cookie, but it’s a fortune
A wealthy Briton repaid the kindness shown to her by a couple who own a Chinese restaurant she frequented by leaving them $21 million.
Golda Bechal’s 1994 will said she wanted Kim Sing Man and his wife, Bee Lian, owners of a Chinese restaurant northeast of London, to inherit her money. She died at 88 in January 2004.
High Court Judge Donald Rattee on Friday rejected a challenge to the will by Bechal’s five nephews and nieces.
The three traveled together on foreign holidays and regularly met at the restaurant and at Bechal’s London apartment, Rattee said. He said Bee Lian was “the daughter she would dearly wished to have had.”
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