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\n\t\tKassy Sinar\u2019s partner Cengiz Arif forged a will to try and get his hands on her \u00a3500,000 estate (Picture: Supplied by Champion News)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tKassy Sinar\u2019s partner Cengiz Arif forged a will to try and get his hands on her \u00a3500,000 estate (Picture: Supplied by Champion News)<\/p>\n
The family of a mum who died of breast cancer<\/a> have won a \u00a3700,000 court battle with her \u2018abusive\u2019 boyfriend after he used a forged will and fake wedding to try and get his hands on her fortune.<\/p>\n Kassy Sinar was only 46 when she died in October 2023 and left the whole of her \u00a3500,000 estate in trust for the benefit of her 16-year-old daughter Jocey in a will she made in 2022.<\/p>\n But her partner \u2013 Jocey\u2019s dad Cengiz Arif \u2013 tried to claim the teenager\u2019s inheritance for himself by producing a document he claimed was Kassy\u2019s true last will, dated 10 May 2023, under which everything went to him.<\/p>\n He also claimed he and Kassy had been secretly married in Cyprus on 19 September 2006 without her close family knowing and went on to ban her relatives from attending Kassy\u2019s funeral in London<\/a>.<\/p>\n But Kassy\u2019s brother Ernest Sinar sued on the family\u2019s behalf \u2013 and a High Court<\/a> judge has now ruled that both the marriage certificate and the 2023 will put forward as evidence by Cengiz were \u2018forged\u2019.<\/p>\n Chief Master Karen Shuman upheld the 2022 will leaving all of Kassy\u2019s money in trust for her daughter, and Cengiz with nothing.<\/p>\n She also ordered him to pay the estimated \u00a3206,000 costs run up by Ernest fighting the case.<\/p>\n The judge also stripped Cengiz \u2013 who didn\u2019t show up at court to defend the case \u2013 of his roles as executor of the 2022 will and trustee of the trust fund.<\/p>\n She further made an injunction banning him from dealing with or dissipating any of the properties or money in Kassy\u2019s estate.<\/p>\n \t\t The court heard that Kassy, who ran her own cleaning business, was originally from Manchester<\/a> but moved down to London, buying a property in Finsbury Park and starting an on-off relationship with Cengiz Arif.<\/p>\n Jocey was born in 2009, but the couple then split between 2011 and 2018, with Kassy telling friends that she had refused his proposal of marriage and reporting that the relationship was \u2018abusive and toxic\u2019.<\/p>\n The couple got back together, but Kassy was diagnosed with breast cancer and died in October 2023 in a hospice.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tLatest London news\t\t\t<\/p>\n To get the latest news from the capital, visit Metro’s London news hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n A bitter fall-out followed her death, with close relatives holding their own memorial service for Kassy after Cengiz banned them from her cremation in London.<\/p>\n Cengiz then came forward with the supposed 2023 will, leaving all Kassy\u2019s estate including her London home and a bolt hole house she had bought in Burnley<\/a>, worth \u00a358,000, to him.<\/p>\n His claim that she had self-drafted and signed a secret new will without informing her family or daughter was backed by another shock claim that the pair had secretly married in 2006 without her brother or any other of her friends or family having known.<\/p>\n But the judge pointed out the fact that it was only after Kassy\u2019s death that Cengiz claimed he was her husband.<\/p>\n \t\t The court heard a suspicious Ernest contacted Turkish authorities questioning the validity of the marriage certificate Cengiz produced, only to be told that no wedding had taken place on the date claimed and that the registrar he named had not been working.<\/p>\n They told him \u2018the marriage is not legally valid\u2019, the judge said.<\/p>\n \u2018Nobody was aware that Kassy was allegedly married.<\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019m satisfied on the evidence that I have heard that this was an unhappy, toxic and abusive relationship.<\/p>\n \u2018There is evidence of physical and emotional abuse.<\/p>\n \u2018In her last weeks of life, he left her to travel to Cyprus for at least two weeks.<\/p>\n \u2018She was never married to Cengiz, therefore he has adduced to the court a forged document.<\/p>\n \u2018Cengiz produced in these proceedings a false document. He was never married to Kassy.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u2018I\u2019m satisfied that the marriage certificate is a forged document.\u2019<\/p>\n \t\t Moving on the to the wills, the judge said that Cengiz had claimed the 2022 will was not valid due to amendments Kassy had made to it after it was initially drawn up and signed.<\/p>\n But the judge ruled that alterations had not made it void.<\/p>\n \u2018There is nothing before me to impugn the behaviour of Ernest or his solicitors. I\u2019m satisfied that the 2022 will was duly executed,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n But she went on to find that the 2023 will produced by Cengiz\u00a0was a fake.<\/p>\n \u2018The explanation Cengiz gave of how the 2023 will came to be prepared is preposterous. It is indeed incredible,\u2019 she said, adding that the signature was clearly not Kassy\u2019s.<\/p>\n \u2018It is inherently implausible that Cengiz\u2019s case is correct. Had Kassy made the 2023 will, she would have told Ernest.<\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019m satisfied on the basis of the evidence that has been presented to me that the 2023 will was forged.<\/p>\n \u2018The will relied on by Cengiz was not the last will of Kassy. I also find that the marriage certificate was a forged document.<\/p>\n \u2018The 2023 will is a forgery. I\u2019m satisfied that there has been fraud in this case.<\/p>\n \u2018This is an estate that Kassy wanted to go to her daughter not her sometime partner and the father of her child.\u2019<\/p>\n The judge went on to order Cengiz to pay Ernest\u2019s costs of the case, which his barrister Sarah Harrison said came to around \u00a3206,000.<\/p>\n Verity Hudson, from Ernest\u2019s solicitors Rothley Law said after the case: \u2018This was a complex and emotional case that required careful investigation.<\/p>\n \u2018Having worked closely with the family since 2023, we\u2019re so pleased to have helped secure the right outcome for them.\u2019<\/p>\n Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n For more stories like this, check our news page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Arrow Arrow Arrow![\"Champion](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SEI_285488693-be3f-e1771326938455.jpg\")
\n\t\tKassy Sinar was only 46 when she died in October 2023 and left her \u00a3500,000 estate in trust for the benefit of her 16-year-old daughter Jocey (Picture: Supplied byChampion News)<\/p>\n![\"Champion](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SEI_285488699-1813-e1771326959679.jpg\")
\n\t\tErnest and Michelle Sinar outside London\u2019s High Court during the case (Picture: Champion News)<\/p>\n![\"Champion](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SEI_285488704-0899-e1771326973777.jpg\")
\n\t\tCengiz Arif was said by the judge to have carried out a \u2018fraud\u2019 in the case (Picture: Champion News)<\/p>\n
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