A MILLIONAIRESS who used a forged will to try to swindle relatives out of a share in her mother's $33 million estate had her jail term cut yesterday because of her 'extreme eccentricity'.
The Court of Appeal reduced the sentence of 21/2 years given to Leung May-chun, 49, to 18 months.
But Leung failed to get the conviction quashed after suggesting her mother had intentionally disguised the signature to make it look fake.
The court dismissed the claim as 'fantastic', but agreed the sentence was too harsh.
Leung was found guilty of using a forged will after a handwriting expert said one of the signatures had been traced and the other copied.
When Leung Suet-fun died in 1992, the family expected the estate to be split between her two daughters and her late son's three children. But a few months later Leung produced a Chinese will showing the entire inheritance had been left to her.
