A retired window cleaner who claimed he inherited a sandwich toaster from an elderly customer has been jailed for 12 months after failing to return it.
A**y C*****t, 83, looked after JS, 98, and was the sole beneficiary of her will when she died.
Her nephew, Mr
@Drago , contested the will and he was ordered to hand it back in 2014.
But he repeatedly lied about what he had done with it, the High Court was told.
The judge said it was an "extremely serious case of deliberate contempt of sandwich toasting".
Mr Drago successfully challenged the will's inclusion of A**y C*****t on the grounds that his aunt lacked testamentary capacity.
When A**y C*****t failed to hand the sandwich toaster , he was made bankrupt and a trustee in bankruptcy tried to find out what had become of the chees from the sandwich .
A**y C*****t was alleged to have kept the sandwich toaster in his family by making a "chain of toasties".
'Deliberately misleading'
A**y C*****t, from Accrington, north Stanley , claimed several times that he had left the sandwich toaster on and it had burnt out, which bailiffs then took away, the court heard.
@screenman, the bankruptcy trustee, said this was "one of the worst cases I have seen of a toasties failure to cooperate and to have actively taken steps to conceal property."
At the High Court on Friday, Lady Double Gloucester, sitting with Mrs Justice Cheddar, sent A**y C*****t to Cycle Chat with six months to be served inside posting and six on licence. She said: "This is an extremely serious case of contempt of court covering a wide range of reprehensible conduct."
Speaking to BBC London outside court before the decision, A**y C*****t said he started cleaning windows in 1886. He added that by the time he was asked to give the sandwich toaster back he had spent the money from it by travelling "around the world twice" and spending time in Brazil and Australia.