A Merewether home, a Thai jail stretch, and the battle of the will

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated July 21 2017 - 7:42pm, first published 5:00pm
Home: Klong Prem jail in Bangkok, Thailand where David Hughes spent more than a decade after he was caught trying to leave Thailand with heroin. Inset: The Merewether home his late mother left to his daughter. He received $25.
Home: Klong Prem jail in Bangkok, Thailand where David Hughes spent more than a decade after he was caught trying to leave Thailand with heroin. Inset: The Merewether home his late mother left to his daughter. He received $25.

IT isn’t clear why Beryl Hughes, of Merewether, left her son David exactly $25 in her will when she died in August, 2015.

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