The hopes of two Filipino women with rival claims that their sons were heirs to the title of Fourth Baron Moynihan of Leeds have been dashed by the High Court.
Former Conservative Party sports minister Colin Moynihan, the half-brother of the rogue peer who fled Britain to evade a string of arrest warrants, is now 'more rather than less likely' to take the title.
The divorce of the Philippines brothel-owning late third Lord Moynihan from his fourth wife Editha was ruled null and void, making his fifth marriage to Jinna Sabiaga, a hotel receptionist, bigamous and his son Daniel, five, illegitimate.
This means that Editha can now go ahead with claims in the Philippines to the peer's multimillion-dollar massage parlour sex empire.
Judge Sir Stephen Brown said the affair was caused by the 'wicked selfishness' of Lord Moynihan, who died aged 55 in 1991.
The victims, he said, were Jinna's son Daniel, five, and Editha's son Andrew, six.