Sowing, Reaping

[Jade]

When Noel and Margaret Foreman's eldest son promised to help them invest £120,000 for their retirement, the couple were confident he would help them secure a good nest egg for their twilight years.
But Neil Foreman had other ideas.
Disgruntled that his parents had spent thousands putting his younger brother and sister through private school, while he was sent to a state comprehensive, he set about spending the cash on the life of luxury he had always craved.


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A clear case of "be careful what devils you unleash with your parenting" and a lesson to us all in looking after ourselves instead of trusting anyone to do it for us


But how much were they to blame for their own losses?

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But how much were they to blame for their own losses?

Goodness knows, Jade; both sides have put their story, and I don't have any sympathy for the son. It must have been tempting for this couple to accept the offer to invest in an account paying more than the miserly interest paid on accounts in recent years - although they could I suppose have made inquiries about the "dormant account" which really does sound too good to be true!