A Cambridgeshire woman has been jailed for eight months for creating a false will after her wealthy partner's death.
Karen Phillips, 46, forged the document after businessman Stephen Chambers, 56, died suddenly in Godmanchester in 2011.
Peterborough Crown Court heard she made herself the main beneficiary, to the detriment of his family, and would have gained several hundred thousand pounds.
She admitted fraud by false representation and was jailed for eight months.
Speaking after Thursday's hearing, police said Phillips alerted Mr Chambers' family after finding the father of three dead at his home in Crowhill on 23 January 2011.
Security for children
She told his children he had written a will which had been given to her solicitor.
A month later, the Chambers family obtained a copy of the will which they suspected had been forged by Phillips.
It stated that each of Mr Chambers' children would receive £10,000, and his mother £15,000, police said.
Phillips was arrested and denied forging the will, but admitted the offence when she realised her computer was to be examined.
She claimed she wanted security for herself and her children, and that Mr Chambers would have wanted that, a police spokesman added.
Two women, aged 74 and 29, were cautioned by police for signing the forged will.
Det Con Derek Cornhill said: "Phillips was upset when Mr Chambers died and believed she was carrying out his wishes, but forging a will is a criminal offence and her actions caused Mr Chambers' family extra concern and anxiety during their grief.
"If Phillips has succeeded in the fraud it would have denied Mr Chambers' immediate family of the inheritance due to them."
