11-05-2025
Frauds stole £260k from Colin before he died. We called them up
Seven months ago Greta Chudley returned home to find her husband of 30 years, Colin, sitting with his head in his hands, crying. His devastation was so out of character that at first she feared a relative had died.
'All he could say was, 'No, I've done something stupid',' Chudley recalled. ''I've lost all my savings, my investments, my pension pot — everything'. And I just broke down in tears.'
For weeks Colin, 68, had been living with a terrible secret. He had lost every penny of the £260,000 he had set aside for their retirement and to help their 26-year-old daughter Hannah buy her first home. He had been the victim of an elaborate and coercive scam in which the fraudsters used the details
