DNA test confirms care worker Jordan Adlard-Rogers as heir to Penrose estate

Jordan Adlard-Rogers, a care worker in his early thirties, became the owner of the Penrose estate in Cornwall, south-west England, after a DNA test showed he was the son of the landowner Charles Rogers. The estate, which includes about 1,500 acres of coast and countryside near Helston, was reported to be worth around £50m.

Adlard-Rogers said he had spent years trying to establish that Rogers was his father, but that Rogers had refused to give a DNA sample. The test was carried out only after Rogers died, and the result confirmed the family link. With Rogers's mother and brother also dead, Adlard-Rogers was left as the heir.

The story gained wide international coverage in May 2019, when his inheritance became public and he was described as having gone from a modest income to running a major country estate. Reports differed on the exact value of the estate and on the income he would receive from the family trust, so figures were treated as estimates. The inheritance later became the background to coverage of his personal life, including the court case that brought him back into the news.