India, March 27 -- A man from Sydney, Australia, was accused of chopping off a portion of his deceased brother's ear to support a DNA theory he thought would help him win in an inheritance dispute. On the day of his brother's funeral, Jian Zhong Li took his son and sneaked up to his brother's coffin. Jian then chopped off a portion of his sibling's ear. He claims he had "no other choice" in a desperate attempt to prove his nephew was illegitimate, as per reports.

According to the Daily Star, he was convinced that his nephew Cheng Zhang Li, the son of his brother Jian Ming Li, who died at the age of 58 from a lung disease, was illegitimate since he grew a "suspicious" beard. If this were true, Cheng would no longer be entitled to the dece...