A SISTER has won a £2 million (US$2.5 million) inheritance row after a cat uncovered her dead brother’s will.

Venetia Murray has been awarded the huge sum of money after the moggy knocked over a key pile of papers in a solicitor’s office.

Her brother, Dean Brunt, died in a railway accident in 2007 and was thought not to have made a will.

His share of a £6 million farm that he, his brother Dale, and sister owned went to his mother, who then gave it to Dale.

But after Venetia discovered the existence of two wills made by her brother in 1999, she and her uncle Bob Wrangle fought Dale and the siblings’ mom’s claims.

One of the wills — which lawyers said showed “crucial evidence” of Dean’s intention to give his sister half his wealth — was unearthed when a solicitor’s cat knocked over a pile of papers about to be shredded.

At the High Court in London, Judge Paul Teverson last week rejected claims by Dale and his mom that the wills were forged, and ruled that Venetia will get half of Dean’s share of the farm.

The court heard that the three siblings inherited the farm, at Broxbourne, from their grandfather Arthur Nicholls, who had bought it with his earnings as a prize fighter, and died in 1990.

Dean’s body was found on a railway line near Sawbridgeworth, Herts, in 2007.

And Venetia told the court she had assumed that, after Dean’s death, she and Dale were joint owners of the farm and business partnership.

Dean’s estate will now be divided under the terms of the 1999 wills, which split his share of the farm equally between Dean and Venetia.(SD-Agencies)