Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters has won a prolonged legal battle over his late brother’s estate – which includes the million-pound childhood home they grew up in - after a lodger claimed he was a beneficiary in a mystery will.
The 81-year-old singer launched a civil case after his brother John died in 2022 and long-term tenant Lokuliyanage Cabral produced a letter from the retired cab driver which he claimed ‘evidences a will made by the deceased to his benefit’.
The house was the main asset in John’s estate, located in a quiet and leafy street in Cambridge – the city where the band’s members met – which regularly attracts Pink Floyd fans.
But searches by lawyers for Waters – who has been dogged by claims of antisemitism in the past, which he denies, and has an ongoing feud with former Pink Floyd bandmate David Gilmour - unearthed no trace of a will.
Following a trial at Central London County Court, a judge ruled that John died intestate – meaning his younger brother inherits everything.
