Will this OAP be robbed of her house and money?

Wanda Maddocks is the girl who, as we learnt final 12 months, was secretly jailed by the mysterious and sinister Court of Safety for getting rid of her father from a care home in which he had been place by social workers against his will. He had been neglected and ill-treated and, quickly after his forced return, died. This surprising episode aided to set off Lord Justice Munby’s latest suggestions calling for far more transparency in the workings of the Court of Protection, which are even far more secretive than those involving the forced removal of kids.

I have recently been following the bizarre story of a frail but otherwise capable 94-yr-outdated lady who has turn out to be the object of focus by social companies. Their aim, it looks, is to take control of her £350,000 home and her substantial financial savings, to transfer her against her will to a care home and then to evict from the property a niece and her husband who seem after her. Having obtained a questionable psychiatrist’s report to present that the outdated lady is not “mentally competent”, the social employees utilized an buy from the Court of Protection to deny her accessibility to her financial institution accounts. She only learnt this when a teller refused to give her funds and would not tell her why.

Having discovered her capable of carrying on a sensible conversation, and possessing heard from her niece how the concern of God is becoming place into the household by very intrusive visits from a social employee, accompanied by 4 police, my friend Ian Josephs arranged for the girl to be assessed by an eminent psychologist, Dr Ludwig Lowenstein, president of the Global Council of Psychologists. Not only did she pass all his tests, he was so essential of the report produced by the council psychiatrist that he volunteered to come to court this week to testify as an specialist witness.

After finding out this on Friday, the council apparently withdrew its attempt to persuade the court that the previous lady lacks “capacity”. In light of this twist, it will be fascinating to see regardless of whether the social employees persist in their campaign to evict her and her loved ones from their home, and to assume total handle over her finances. In due course, I hope to report on the end result.

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Regardless of all the spurious enthusiasm created by the Wythenshawe and Sale by-election, its only substantial message was that much more than 70 per cent of the electorate did not bother to vote. The mandate of the winning Labour candidate was a mere 17 per cent. The more our political class withdraws from the people they are meant to represent, the additional the rest of us shrink away from them. Any final pretences that we still live in a meaningful democracy are gurgling away down the plug hole.

Will this OAP be robbed of her house and money?