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Yes.  I would suggest you try to contact KW (above) for more informtion.

AVOID AT ALL COST
SCAM
REP COMES TO YOUR HOUSE
STILL WAITING FOR A POWER OF ATTORNEY FROM JUNE LAST YEAR - COST £834
WONT REPLY TO CALLS OR EMAILS
WILL BE REPORTING TO POLICE AS FRAUD

Did you get any where? My mother-in-law also paid £834 plus £2394 for LPA ans ESTATE PRESERVATION TRUST Action fraud/ police don't seem to have got anywhere with it, sad 😳

They have finally been sentenced for their crimes:

FRAUD GANG JAILED FOR ROLES IN SCAM THAT NETTED MORE THAN £500k

http://www.nottinghampost.com/Fraud-gang-jail ... tail/story.html

Members of a gang that targeted unsuspecting pensioners by pretending to be experts in wills and trusts law have been jailed for more than 12 years.

Salesmen – with no legal training - posed as 'legal consultants', visited elderly victims in their own homes and told them that they could protect their property and savings from future care home fees by putting them into a 'Trust' document.

They told scare stories and pressurised them into making up front payments of around £2,000 for what they called a 'Family Prosperity Trust' or 'Estate Preservation Trust'. The gang took over £250,000 in each of the two years that they were operating.

Nottinghamshire County Council's Trading Standards team successfully prosecuted eight people, who committed the fraud trading under the names 'Inheritance Protection Services', 'Inheritance & Probate Solutions Ltd' and 'Goldstar Law Ltd."

All three operated from rented units in Newark, but used postal addresses in London.

The eight involved were: Joseph Croft, 53, of Rhodes House, Sleaford; Alan Appleyard, 71, of Low Bentley, in Halifax; Matthew Appleyard, 42,also of Low Bentley, Halifax; Joy Bell, 55, of Ridgeview Road, Bracebridge Heath; Adam Nichols, 46, of Farndon Road, in Newark; Adrian Large, 51, of Cosgrove Close, Lincoln; Paul Fox, 58, of Stanley Close, Widnes; and Paul Gorman, 56, of Montrose Court, in Liverpool.

Croft, Matthew Appleyard and his father Alan Appleyard ran the businesses, initially employing Joy Bell as their 'Head of Legal'. Mrs Bell posed as a legal expert but in reality had no legal qualifications. All four admitted Fraudulent Trading and Legal Services Act offences.

'Legal Consultants' Large, Nichols, Fox and Gorman all admitted offences under the Fraud Act for their roles in peddling the trusts.

Croft received a four-and-half-year prison sentence, and Matthew and Alan Applecroft both received a four-year sentence at Nottingham Crown Court on Friday, May 15. All three have been disqualified from holding a company director position for ten years.

Bell received a nine-month suspended prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, 200 hours of unpaid work and a curfew order, requiring her to stay at home from 9pm to 6am for six months.

Gorman and Fox received four-month prison sentencse, suspended for 18 months, 200 hours of unpaid community work, and have been ordered to pay £1,000 towards court costs.

Nichols and Large received a three-month prison sentence each, suspended for 18 months, a 200 hours of community work and will also pay £1,000 towards court costs.

Councillor Glynn Gilfoyle, Committee Chairman for Community Safety at Nottinghamshire County Council, said: "We welcome the outcome of this court case. People were duped into believing these trusts were guaranteed to work but in fact they were ineffective and worthless.

"Many of the complainants are elderly and were subjected to pressure selling tactics. They were told that if they did not agree to purchase the trust on that day they would be charged for future visits and others were told stories of people who had delayed and then had to pay care home fees as a result."

An independent legal expert has confirmed that 'Deprivation of Assets' rules means these trusts would offer no protection from care home fees. Assets put into trusts in this way would still be included in the financial assessment that Local Authorities carry out when deciding whether to fund a care home place. In some situations the trust documents could actually make their financial position even worse.

Victims were given no warning that this could happen, and were told that the trusts were risk-free. Many were tricked into believing that they were dealing with an established and regulated law firm.

Cheques were often cashed within hours of sales taking place, meaning that they had no chance to think things over or consult with their families. Complaints and cancellations were routinely ignored. Over the two years that the scam was running, only a handful of people ever received the products that they had paid for.

Nottingham Crown Court found that the eight had admitted the following charges:

• Croft, Bell, Matthew Appleyard, and Alan Appleyard admitted a charge of fraudulent trading contrary to section 993(1) of the Companies Act 2006, between October 2011 and July 201,2 by carrying on the business trading as Inheritance and Probate Solutions Limited for a fraudulent purpose by obtaining payment for a Family Prosperity Trust. They also admitted a charge of carrying on a reserved legal activity when not entitled, contrary to section 14 of the Legal Services Act 2007, preparing trust documents, during the same period.

• Matthew and Alan Appleyard admitted a charge of fraudulent trading, contrary to section 993(1) of the Companies Act 2006, carrying on a business trading as Goldstar Law Limited, based at 7 & 8 Stephenson Court, on the Newark Industrial Estate, for fraudulent purposes, between May 2012 and July 2013, obtaining payment for a trust known as an Estate Preservation Trust. They also admitted charge of carrying on a reserved legal activity when not entitled, contrary to section 14 of the Legal Services Act 2007, preparing trust documents during the same period.

• Contrary to Section One of the Fraud Act 2006, Paul Gorman, Paul Fox, Adam Nichols and Adrian Large admitted to one count of fraud each.