Sols need £20,000 initial payment to defend dh - money we do not hav

[puddytats]

Got letter from the solicitors the other day with some info that the police used to charge dh (can already see discrepancies in what originally told and what is now in statements). They are happy to represent dh but need £20,000 upfront to start with and costs could rise to £60,000+.
WE DON'T HAVE IT
Mil is currently helping to pay all our bill and general living expenses.
My parents are paying for shopping, nursery, days/evenings out etc.
Fil in well off, not sure if he is willing to help out with legal fees. If he does not dh will have to plead guilty as we can not afford the legal fees. He will give us the answer at the weekend.
The fate of my family lies with my fil, if he pays dh can plead not guilty, if he doesn't when we return to court on 13th July he will have to plead guilty which means he will be in prision by the end of august.
I am so very scared.
Thankyou for listening again

Oops didn't want a witch hunt either. Perhaps Puddytats will post soon.

ok fair enough. MN has helped people out in the past. I've followed puddytats story from the beginning and she has been through hell. I thought it'd be nice if we could try and help. At the end of the day she has lost everything, regardless of whether or not her husband is innocent.

Thankyou for all your kind thoughts again. The committal hearing was adjourned for 3 weeks until August 3rd as the prosecution had not forwarded all of the paperwork in time for our solicitor to read it, let alone begin on the defense.
For all of you who have questions i will answer any that i can. We have nothing to hide and a lot of it is confusing to us as well as we do not go on.
THE ONLY REASON DH WOULD PLEAD GUILTY is for the children. We do not want either of them to remember any of it and the longer it drags on the more likely they will remember.
HE IS INNOCENT. I believe this so strongly i would swear it on the lives of our children, however i can fully understand how people are feeling. We are not asking for and do not expext any financial help from mumset. All i want is a place i can vent my feelings without putting any further pressure on DH. HE is going through enough at the moment without me adding to it.
We have been told that legal aid will not pay for a QC and we would not be given the choice of solicitor. DH father has come through for us and has agreed to foot the bill. For this we are hugely grateful and can only hope that DH is getting the best legal advice possible. It is not practical to swap solicitors half way through.
Anyone who has not lived through an experience like this cannot possibly commprehend the effect it has on not only our lives but all those around us as well - family, friends colleagues, the future. If i thought DH was guilty i would still stick by him. I love him and he is the father of my children, as it is i KNOW that he has been set up.
However there is only so much that a person can take and the toll this is having on us is indescribable. A month ago i attempted suicide, the care i have had since has been fantastic but we have changed forever.
Please do not judge, I cannot give all the answers as I do not have them, at times i feel that i know less than nothing. I understand how people feel but rather than jumping to conclusions please ask and when i can get to a computer i will answer.
Again I have never and would never ask any of you for financial help, I am not looking for sympathy even, simply a place where i can talk. Please don't deprive me of that.

puddytats, good to hear from you. I'm very glad your FIL is paying for your dh's representation. I think of you a lot and hope this nightmare ends for you all soon and that the person or people who have done this to your family are found.
Please keep posting here. Feel free to CAT me or request my email from MNHQ.
I'm so to hear that you attempted suicide, please please hang in there.

(((puddytats)))

I know you have never asked for financial help in no way, shape or form. You came here wanting ears to listen to you and perhaps a shoulder to lean on, please do not let some narrow minded posters put you off.

Best of luck to you and I hope you all escape the hell that you are in very soon xxxxxx

Puddytats - sorry that this is dragging on for you and dh. Hope it is sorted very soon with the best possible outcome. I'm so that it's driven you to attempt suicide, try to stay strong.

Puddytats - talk away! That's what MN and all of us are here for. I don't know your full story as came to thread late but surely you can rely upon support and a cyber-shoulder to cry on here. At its best MN is unjudgemental and supportive and it sounds like that's what you need ATM.

Isn't it the case that after someone has served their sentence for a fraud offence, the Crown can then pursue them for the money they were convicted of taking?

And once the Crown has established, to the Court's satisfaction, that there are hidden assets, if you don't hand them over you can go back to prison. So your slate isn't wiped clean by serving time in prison - you can be sent back, this time not as a punishment for the crime, but as a punishment for not repaying the proceeds of the crime.

Sorry, don't know if that's very clear, and I know it's not very positive. I don't know much about it at all but you obviously need a solicitor who knows about white-collar crime.

Check out the Legal 500 for recommendations of firms of solicitors. I imagine plenty of the firms who do defendant work will take legally aided clients.

We also have a civil case against us mrsdarcy, the firm he used to work for is doing that. Our solicitor is from the legal 500.
As i said before we have nothing to hide, we did nothing wrong. I cannot expect people to believe that on my word alone and understand the concerns and issues people have raised, they are the same as ones we have raised ourselves.
I only want to vent.

Puddytats, I am so sorry this is happening to you - I will keep you in my thoughts.

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PT - i'm so sorry this seems to be dragging on for u, but fingers crosed u will at least be having the right representation and hopefully the right outcome will come thru. (if that makes sence?)

I did offer help (unfortunatly I can't offer finacial help but can offer any other help u may need - even if it's just a ear to bend/a food parcel or something.) I know u haven't asked for it, but the offers there either way.

Munz, satine, and everyone else who has offered help, I am hugely grateful. The support I have received so far has been fantastic.
I appreciate that it is hard on the facts given to believe.
So many people - including those in authority have forgotten it is innocent until proven guilty, it is now the other way round and you have to prove your innocence as eveyone assumes you must be guilty.

((((puddytats))))

Puddytats, I really hope that everything is a step closer to being sorted out by the next hearing. The presure must be emence. I only hope you keep posting when ever you can.
Try and keep strong your children need you too.

puddytats - I fully understand where you're coming from on that case after my unlce was wrongly arrested and put on remand for murder (he was aquitted) but we had the up hill struggle as well of prooving innocence. seems to me everything's done to protcet the guilty and not enough for the innocent in some cases.

((((hugs))))

Any update?

Bump?

Titchy - update here

puddy tats - being told legal aid will not cover a QC is not the same as saying it will not cover a barrister. A QC is an award of sorts given to top barristers. there are an awful lot of very good barristers that aren't QCs