I'd be grateful for some advice. It's a long story ...
In 2007 my grandma died. Leaving her home to her 3 children. My mum was the youngest. She has ... had ... two older brothers. The sale of the house was split three ways. They all were due just over £100k I think.
My lovely uncle, the oldest, has suffered from schizophrenia for most of his life. Due to this, wanker uncle, the second oldest, was in charge of the estate, I guess.
It turned out that wanker uncle didn't actually transfer lovely uncles share to him. Instead he bought 'him' a flat, then gave him the change. But he didn't actually buy the flat for him. The flat was bought in wanker uncles name.
A few years later, lovely uncle had to move into residential care. Leaving the flat empty.
One day, some time before covid, he asked my mum to take him to his flat. When they got there, it was clear that wanker uncles son was living there. Mum said that it made him feel stressed, he had heart troubles. My mum didn't want to cause lovely uncle any more stress as he was clearly anxious when my mum called wanker uncle to confront him about it, so she put it to the back of her mind.
Last year, lovely uncle got diagnosed with terminal cancer. Due to his poor health and weak heart, it was recommended not to undergo any treatment. So they gave him a couple years to live. It is unclear if he really understood what was happening.
A couple of weeks ago, he was in hospital. We were all worried this was going to be the end. But he was discharged and they said it was his medication dosage.
Yesterday lovely uncle was rushed in. He was suffering from complete organ failure. They said he had days. But my poor, lovely uncle died in the early hours of this morning.
Wanker uncle is ignoring my mums calls and texts. The care home that my uncle lived in has commented to my mum about not hearing from that arsehole.
Wanker uncle is such a steaming wanker. He was a teacher at my school for a short while. He took one of my classes. I said to my friend, 'that's my uncle. He said im fat' he heard me. And in front of the whole class he said, 'you are fat'. And everyone laughed at me. He essentially gave them all permission to call me fat.
My grandpa lived in another country. For some reason, wanker uncle decided to ask him to buy me a new guitar. In his email he recommended grandpa send him the money as my mum couldn't be trusted not to spend it. What?! How fucking dare he!
When my grandpa died, he told his partner that she didn't need to send anything over for anyone. My grandpa used to write screen plays. I'd have loved to have one. Plus the hundreds of photos he had of me and my sisters.
And now this. He's conned my lovely, sweet uncle of 100k!!
I've told my mum she needs to get legal advice. Is it fraud? Can it be proved? I think it can be, as there will be evidence that wanker knob face never gave him his share. And the flat being in his name etc.
Maybe we should just let it go? It's one thing telling an old woman who has just lost her partner not to worry about sending anything overseas, but quite another 'buying your brother a flat, with his own money and putting it in your name'.
Is it just fraud, or is it financial abuse of a vulnerable adult?
I'm sorry this is so long, but im so sad for my uncle. He was such a sweet, sweet man. So intelligent. His life was just awful. He has suffered so much with his schizophrenia. And now he is just dead after living such a hard life. And this fucking arsehole exploits him.
Not sure if the background info is relevant. But I wanted to paint a clear picture of the kind of man he is.