Merciless man stole £9,000 inheritance from step granddaughters regardless of tragedy

A depraved step grandfather stole an enormous inheritance from two younger ladies after their father tragically died of coronary heart failure, a member of the family has revealed. 

The unnamed man has refused to return the £8,366 he took from his late stepson’s account, which he had arrange because the financial savings for his personal two daughters, for greater than two years regardless of complaints from the household and authorized motion. 

The mom of the bereaved ex-wife wrote to the Daily Telegraph to explain the horrific ordeal, revealing that the cash has nonetheless not been returned. 

The step grandfather exploited a authorized loophole to steal the cash and has since declined to speak with the out-of-pocket granddaughters or their kin. 

Barclays Bank, who had been holding the cash, has been pressured to pay out the excellent sum and is now searching for to concern monetary punishments to the step grandfather. 

The household have been already in shock when the daddy out of the blue died of a coronary heart assault as every week earlier, his father had additionally died. 

But that didn’t cease the person’s stepfather from shortly procuring a dying certificates and gutting the Barclays account holding the ladies’ financial savings. 

He exploited a authorized loophole during which banks pays out sums beneath £50,000 to bereaved members of the family if they supply paperwork confirming their relation and the relative’s dying. 

The system is in place to take away the purple tape for grieving households trying to safe their late kin’ funds. 

The grandmother of the 2 ladies whose financial savings have been stolen, on the mom’s facet, stated her granddaughters’ “deep grief had only been exacerbated by the deliberate theft of their meagre savings”.

The grandmother took authorized motion by using a solicitor to sort out what she seen as “fraud” nevertheless it was to no avail. 

Even when she acquired a probate – a proof of will – the step grandfather nonetheless didn’t pay the cash to the supposed beneficiaries. 

Barclays has since compensated the 2 ladies, with extra bonuses by the use of the delay, however the step grandfather stays unpunished.