Niece stops ‘gold-digger’ inheriting £100,000 from her infatuated uncle, 75
A WIDOWER aged 75 was duped into leaving more than £100,000 to a 24-yearold “gold-digger” he met just weeks before he died.
John Morgan was said to have been infatuated with the wine investment manager.
She visited him in hospital in the weeks before his death.
But it was only after he died that his family found Mr Morgan had changed his will to name the woman as the main beneficiary of his life savings.
His family have now won a seven-year battle to block the inheritance after saying the woman – who cannot be named for legal reasons – had “screwed him over”.
His determined niece Julie Elvin, of Cardiff, had to prove John had been exploited.
The beautician, 53, said: “I was devastated. It wasn’t about the financial gain – John had been screwed over and that’s what had to be stopped.
“Before John died he told my mother and I he had invested £35,000 into a wine
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company and we thought we had to be careful here. But we also didn’t want to say, ‘Don’t go spending our inheritance’.
“He kept talking about his friend. I said, ‘You need to be careful John’. But by then he wouldn’t listen to anybody.”
Julie’s mum Lorna died from cancer during the legal battle but Julie was determined to carry on. She said: “It was indescribable when it was all over. It was all for my family.”
Julie contacted Cardiff law firm Hugh James who won the case. Despite the major beneficiary turning down a lower offer from Julie, a court found against her and she received nothing.
Julie’s solicitor Roman Kubiak said: “If you’re infatuated, you can’t think rationally.”
Above, Julie Elvin. Left, John Morgan with the woman and, inset, a letter to him from her