A care worker who inherited a National Trust estate after a DNA test proved he was the illegitimate son of the aristocratic owner has gone on trial after allegedly breaking a man’s leg in a pub fight.
Jordan Adlard-Rogers, 38, spent years trying to prove that Charles Rogers – who held the 1,536-acre family seat at the National Trust Penrose Estate in Cornwall – was his real father.
Mr Rogers died aged 62 in August 2018, after which a DNA test confirmed they were related.
Because Rogers’s mother and brother were also dead, Adlard-Rogers was the estate’s sole heir.
His trial began yesterday at
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