Welsh farmer who received a £1.3m payout has it slashed to £500,000

A Welsh farmer who received a £1.3m payout for working on her parent's farm on "meagre wages" has seen her payout drastically cut to £500,000.

Senior judges in London ruled that amount was too much.

Eirian Davies, 47, from Carmarthenshire, looked after the cows on Henllan Farm in Whitland while her two sisters were out having fun at the local Young Farmers' Club.

Her parents, Tegwyn and Mary Davies, told her she would inherit most of the farm as recompense, but changed their will to put it in the trust of all three sisters equally.

Her parents refused to accept a court ruling last year that she was entitled to a £1.3m share in the farm and pursued the case to the Court of Appeal.

That court has now ruled that this sum was too generous and has reduced the compensation entitlement to £500,000.

It has also told Miss Davies she has 12 months to leave a farmhouse owned by the family.

It began with an altercation in the milk parlour in 2012 when Mr and Mrs Davies tried, but failed, to evict their daughter from Henllan Farmhouse.

Miss Davies sued her parents, claiming they promised her the lion's share of the 182-acre dairy farm on which she had spent 25 years milking cows.

She told the court she missed out on going to Young Farmers' Club dances with two sisters as a teenager because she had to "stay home with a muck fork".

The legal costs of the case are expected to come to a high six-figure sum, further depleting the family fortune.