Article: THE SON v THE MISTRESS; Wife-beater, drunk and gambler, the late George Carman was a brilliant barrister. This week his last mistress - a blonde lawyer 26 years his junior - told how she lovingly nursed him to the end. Rubbish, says Carman's son who, in a devastating interview, portrays her as a ruthless predator more interested in his money than his love.

Byline: LYNDA LEE-POTTER

WHEN George Carman was dying last year, the two people closest to him were his son, Dominic, and Karen Phillipps, the woman to whom the QC was devoted. But this week, Karen, a barrister many years Carman's junior, made it clear that they'd never had a sexual relationship, and that she'd had several affairs during their time together. She denied being a 'kept woman' and said she nursed him selflessly. But, as Dominic reveals here, nothing could be further from the truth . . .

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