A 'parasite' son who spun a web of 'disgraceful' lies in a bid to claim his siblings' inheritance has been ordered out of the family home and handed a £265,000 bill.
Robert Chung, 62, claimed he was promised that he alone would inherit his parents' three-bedroom house because he moved back in while he was in his 30s to care for them in their old age.
His father Victor died in 1998 and his mother Irene in 2016, but because she had no will her £600,000 estate was to be split equally between Robert and his high-flying siblings, accountant Marina Bennett and IT boss Richard Chung.
Robert sued in a bid to get the entire house, claiming he left a job in the 'film industry' to his detriment.
His siblings fought back, calling him a 'parasite' and 'financial drain' on their parents, claiming he lounged around 'watching movies non-stop' while his mother cooked and cleaned.
They insisted he is a 'pathological liar' with a 'grandiose view' of himself, and that the extent of his involvement in the 'film industry' was actually just a job in a Blockbuster video shop.
He has now been left facing £265,000 in court bills after a judge threw out his case and ordered him to get out of the family home.
Recorder Lawrence McDonald branded him a liar and his case a 'disgraceful insult on the memory' of his father.
Robert Chung, 62, claimed the family home was promised solely to him after he moved back in to look after his parents
Marina Bennett, Robert's younger sister, said that her brother would just lounge around the living room all day watching films
Neither parent had made any such promise about his inheritance, said the judge, while Robert had not cared for or looked after either of them, with his elderly mother doing almost everything around the house while he failed to 'pull his weight in any way'.
Just because he might have given his mother £50 a week towards bills and 'prepared the mashed potato' for dinner did not mean he 'looked after' her, said the judge, slamming Robert for 'making things up' in court to boost his case.
Dismissing his claim, he said the 'tragedy' was that Robert had probably now squandered his entire inheritance in his court bid to take the house for himself.
Central London County Court heard that Victor and Irene Chung brought up their three children in a three-bed detached home, in Mulberry Way, South Woodford.
The house in east London, it was heard, ended up their 'most significant asset.'
Barrister Faisel Sadiq, representing Robert's siblings, told Recorder McDonald that they had always instilled a sense of 'self-reliance' in their children.
But while Marina, 60, and Richard, 58, had gone off to forge successful careers - Marina as a senior accountant in the US and Canada and Richard as an IT manager in London - Robert had been a 'disappointment'.
Although he moved out of the family home to Berkshire, he moved back in 1990, taking employment in a Job Centre and never again leaving his parents' home.
Giving evidence, Robert told the judge that he had only moved back home because he had been asked to do so to provide care for his father, who he said was ill.
He claimed that his father told him he would get everything when he died and that Irene could go back to her native Finland because she 'came with nothing and could go back with nothing'.
His mother had made similar promises after his father died, he claimed, as he stayed with her at his childhood home, looking after her in her old age.
However, his father's final will left everything to his mother, who then died intestate, with her estate to be split between the three children equally.
For the siblings, Mr Sadiq suggested that Robert had not really looked after his parents, since neither parent needed extensive care, with the evidence suggesting it was his mum who looked after him.
Richard Chung, 58, agreed with their sister that the house and estate should be split three ways
He put it to him that he was 'the son that was a bit of a disappointment', not properly flying the nest and in fact 'a financial drain' on his parents.
In her evidence, Marina said she had been 'horrified' at the state of her mother and the house when she visited in 2016, telling the judge: 'For someone supposedly looking after mum, Robert Chung had failed.'
Prior to that, she had not seen her brother caring for their mother, she continued, accusing him of 'just lounging in the living room watching movies non-stop, with mum doing everything around you.'
Giving judgment, Recorder McDonald said that, if Robert's claim to the whole house was successful, it would mean there were 'no significant assets' in the estate to split with his siblings.
However, he found that Robert was prone to 'making things up', adding: 'I found that Robert was difficult and evasive in his evidence.
'There were lots of things he said in cross-examination that were simply not mentioned in his evidence, that weren't supported by any objective evidence, and in fact in many cases were contradicted.…
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