A FAST food van chef embroiled in a ￡5million legal war with his best friend's family is still flipping burgers despite landing a fortune.
Sam Jones yesterday won his High Court battle in London against the sister of his businessman pal David Turner.
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Sam Jones has been seen beside his burger stall in Chertsey town centre Credit: News Group UK, 5
Mr Jones (pictured) is still serving up fast food despite scooping ￡5million following a court battle Credit: News Group UK,
Mr Jones was granted ￡5million of Mr Turner’s fortune, after he died aged 71 in 2017 from an aggressive brain tumour.
Mr Turner ran a skip hire business and a family pig farm, Woodside Farm, in Chertsey in Surrey.
Mr Jones inherited his best friend's farm as well as half a share in a valuable plot of land near the M25 motorway.
Despite his life-changing fortune, his burger van is still serving to customers hungry for fast food.
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The entrance to the Turner's family farm - now owned by his Mr Jones - is off a country lane lined on the opposite side with a row of semi-detached houses.
A sign at the middle of the fence warns visitors of "security" at the site, below a faded picture of what appears to be a Rottweiler dog.
A house to the right of the entrance looked decrepit.
But a man leaving the site in a Mercedes car said Mr Jones would still be at his burger van in Chertsey town centre, told The Sun Online: "He's still making his burgers."
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Construction workers were enjoying cups of tea and food in the sunshine beside the Saffron’s Right Food burger van, in the car park of Chertsey Social Club.
In a nod to his name, the van bears the cheery slogan "Keeping up with the Jones's".
A woman behind the counter, asked about Mr Jones, told The Sun: "He's not here - can't help you."
When asked whether the van belonged to him, she added: “I’m not confirming or denying anything. I’m not saying anything. Sorry.”
Yet he was today seen sitting beside the stall as staff worked away.
Despite his millions, Mr Jones appeared to keep a low profile and dressed casually in a baseball cap and polo shirt.
FLIPPING RICH
Mr Turner had befriended Mr Jones at that Chertsey snack bar in 2000, coming to treat him "like a son".
The High Court heard how their bond grew over mutual passions for guitars and classic cars.
In contrast he labelled his estranged sister Linda Cano a "conniving b****", cutting her out of his will, the judge was told.
Additional lesser legacies including musical instruments went to other friends, while ￡5,000 was left to the British Polio Fellowship.
Mr Turner had been stricken by polio as a child.
But his 2013 will was challenged in court by his sister, because a copy of his original testament had never been found.
Lawyers for Mrs Cano, who lives in Spain, argued it couldn’t be proved her brother had not destroyed his original after changing his mind about who should inherit his fortune.
She asked the court to nullify the 2013 will, which would have left her free to inherit under the laws of intestacy.
But the judge Master Matthew Marsh ruled against her, leaving Mr Jones to inherit his friend's fortune.
Mr Jones's barrister Rose Fetherstonhaugh told the hearing he had cared for Mr Turner in his final months before organising the funeral and wake.
Mr Turner was described by the judge as a "highly gregarious" character with a passion for shooting, classic cars and music who kept "open house" at his ramshackle farmhouse home.
And Ms Fetherstonhaugh told the court: "Mr Turner, who had no children of his own, treated Mr Jones like a son and was very close to his family.
"Mr Jones looked to him as a father figure and he was a grandfather figure to Mr Jones’s children.
"By contrast, Mr Turner had a very poor relationship with his sister.
"This was well known amongst the deceased’s friends - for example, one friend’s evidence is that he 'never heard Mr Turner say a good word about Mrs Cano'."
Mrs Cano accepted she had little contact with her brother since 2008, but claimed he had a habit of making and changing his will.
The judge ruled her argument was "unsupported" by the evidence.
Mr Marsh added: "There is clear, unchallenged evidence that Mr Jones was a daily visitor to the farm.
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"Mr Jones and others helped care for Mr Turner when his illness became debilitating shortly before his death, showing the strong bond and connections between them.
"There’s no evidence that Mr Turner attempted to make a new will."
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Sam Jones was awarded his friend David Turner's fortune at London's High Court Credit: Champion News Service Ltd 5
Woodside Farm in Chertsey, Surrey, was bequeathed to Mr Jones Credit: News Group UK, 5
The farm was central to an inheritance row involving Mr Turner's sister Linda Cano Credit: Provided on research/identification service basis only by Champion News Service Ltd