RELATIVES of a man who left a £2.7million fortune but had no children or will are fighting for his riches.
And the battle for McDonald Noel’s huge estate centres on his father’s tangled love life.
Unmarried McDonald, who died in 2018 aged 84, emigrated from Trinidad to in 1960.
He made his £2.7million fortune in property, including a £1.5million house in Hammersmith, West London.
With no will or children, it was due to go to the Government until heir hunters got involved.
They found his dad Stanley, from Barbados, had a stepdaughter called Stella with McDonald’s mum, and had son Francis and two stepsons with his second wife.
Their descendants have now had tests and claim the stepchildren were all Stanley’s biological kids as well.
Daniel Burton, who represents some of the claimants, said: “It is the romantic life of McDonald’s father Stanley which is central to the genealogical questions which arise in this case.”
But Aidan Briggs, for Francis’s son Shaka, said: “There are only two children on whose birth certificate Stanley is named as the father.”
A High judge will carry out a “kin inquiry” to decide who will inherit.
McDonald Noel, who left a £2.7million fortune but had no children 
