Two solicitors handling the sale have fled
after failing to pass on the Humphrises’ money as required. One man has been
jailed for two and a half years in connection with the scam, while another man
and a woman have been released on bail.
The family are yet to recover any of their
cash. Now penniless and homeless, Mr Humphris, 50, his wife Samantha, 36, and
sons Kallum, 13, and Mason, ten, are staying with Mrs Humphris’s parents.
Their savings were ‘the result of 34 years of
hard work’, Mr Humphris said. ‘It has been taken away from us just like
that.’
Family see dream home repossessed after lawyers run off with £400,000 life
savings they handed over for the property
They lived in a mobile home while searching
for the perfect family property, which they eventually found last year in
Sidcup, Kent.
‘It was everything we could have dreamed of,’
Mr Humphris said. ‘It had four bedrooms, a swimming pool, an annexe in the
garden with a sauna and a games room for the kids, and it backed on to fields
with horses. We never thought we would get it because it was on the market for
offers around £500,000 and we only had £400,000.
A sole practitioner from north-west London has been jailed for two years after he confessed to stealing more than £850,000 from clients.
David May, 69, destroyed a 46-year unblemished reputation in the profession after dipping regularly into a £280,000 estate he was handling, and writing up 56 bogus bills for non-existent work – costing unsuspecting clients more than £70,000.
May, a sole practitioner at May & Co of Edgware Road, Kingsbury, in north-west London, admitted to stealing £861,645.28 from his firm’s client account between 13 July 2006 and 9 May 2009.
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