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After brother and sister team cheat their vulnerable Father out of 1.25 million.

Lies, greed and financial elder abuse.

It can now be revealed by the way of published official Companies House figures Mr. Charles Starr Curry MBE received no income (dividends) from his beloved newspaper business during the last years of his life. These published official figures now confirm that under the control of Mr. Edward Curry and Ms. Caroline Woodford the local A@T newspaper posted substantial losses for the last 3 years of his life. For the year 2019 the company posted loses of £462,050 and £149,304 for the previous year.

For confirmation see the official Companies House accounts for 2019 for the new A@T using the link below. Look for the doc dated “19 Dec 2019” named “Total exemption full accounts made up to 31 March 2019” at the top of the list and proceed to page 4 of the displayed document. Then note the profit and loss account figures for 2019 and 2018:

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08181967/filing-history

These figures now also unequivocally establish that Mr. Charles Starr Curry MBE’s newspaper was deliberately run at a 600K loss for the last 3 years of his life after his son and daughter took over control. While they enjoyed holidays abroad he received no dividends from his beloved paper and 21 jobs were lost. Refer to page 7 of the same document for confirmation (staff numbers).

As previously exposed by NMW this additional outrage now comes on top of this brother and sister duo disgracefully abusing their positions of trust as directors of their Dad’s company under a lasting power of attorney during this same period to misappropriate at least £1,250,000 of Charles’ personal savings as well.

Charles had devoted his entire extremely hard working life to build up the paper for which he was honored by the Queen with an MBE in 1996. Sadly he passed away on the 2nd of February this year (2019).

Have you picked up a copy of the new A@T financed by elder abuse? It’s only 70p and they need your money, most of Charles’ cash has now run out.

Unfathomable and for your consideration.

Pictured: The brother and sister team who misappropriated 1.25 million of Mr. Charles Starr Curry MBE’s personal savings and also ran his business at a 600K loss for the last 3 years of his life.

Advertiser and Times, New Milton Advertiser, Lymington Times, Incuhive, Hive Studios #incuhive #hivestudios

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The EVIDENCE proving Mr. Edward Curry of the local newspaper lied to his Father Mr. Charles Starr Curry MBE about share allocations misappropriating £1.2 million pounds of his Father’s savings. And then lied to the readers of the paper about it to cover it up.

A note to Mr. Edward Curry from John Caine.

Dear Eddie,

Desist from providing misinformation to Facebook and the local community to falsely indicate that you have been cleared of any wrongdoing by the Office of the Public Guardian regarding your Father’s financial affairs. Your own letter to your Dad proves otherwise when viewed with Company House records. He was not receiving money as you informed him, rather you were selling him the shares. This letter came after the OPG involvement. Hence the deception it confirms cannot have been investigated by them. Refer to para 1 of your own letter. You will of course recognise it:

http://www.valuenetuk.com/dropbox/Charles_threat_to_sue.jpg

And here’s the official Company House records showing you are the one who authorised SELLING him the shares. Your signature confirms it:

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08181967/filing-history

Note the last 3 allotment of share forms to your Dad totaling over £1.2 million.

Sincerely
John Caine

NMW

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How the Directors cheated their vulnerable Father out of his life savings to feather their own nests.

The unequivocal proof they have not been cleared by an investigation by the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG).

This post is to debunk more desperate lies put forward by brother and sister team Mr. Edward Curry and Ms. Caroline Woodford to cover up the scheme they devised to defraud Mr. Charles Starr Curry MBE the deceased owner of the local New Milton and Lymington newspaper.

The substantiating evidence included in this post conclusively shows how their conspiracy to try to feather their own nests at the expense of their Dad and the public purse worked.

For the evidence now available proving the share allocations referenced in this post are proved beyond all doubt review the official Companies House records at:

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08181967/filing-history

For the proof in the form of a letter from Edward Curry himself which came AFTER the OPG involvement and proves beyond all doubt Charles was deceived about these share allocations he was paying for and how his money was being spent, see:

http://www.valuenetuk.com/dropbox/Charles_threat_to_sue.jpg

As can be seen in the letter Charles was being blatantly lied too about receiving money for the sale of shares in his company given the Companies House records prove this to be entirely false. He was actually the one being sold them by the directors using their power of attorney. His savings were being drained to pay for the shares, not visa-versa! Also note the date of this letter was 17 December 2015. It was produced by Eddie Curry AFTER the OPG outcome, his letter even confirms it at paragraph one. The OPG outcome compelled this brother and sister duo to install a panic button for Charles given they were leaving him home alone. In the reported instance it resulted in him being hospitalised.

So it is very clear given the date of this letter (the prove of deceit) the dishonest share allocations it confirms cannot have been investigated by the Office of the Public Guardian as they falsely repeatedly claim to try to cover up their despicable conduct. Including by way of desperately trying to get Facebook content removed which exposes their 1.2 million pound share scam at their Fathers expense.This evidence of deception came after the OPG involvement which had finished months earlier. The date and content of Eddie Curry’ s own letter proves it irrefutably. The letter is the proof.

The necessary ingredients of the scheme:

1) A vulnerable aging Dad with a lots of personal savings and a healthy income.
2) A lasting power of attorney to give you control over his money and interests before his death.
3) Control over your Dad’s business as directors of that company.
4) Be the main benefactors of his estate.
5) Have no moral or ethical qualms about abusing your Father’s sacred trust for your own monetary gain.

How the plan worked:

1) Step one. First they lied to their vulnerable Father and abused their positions of trust to misappropriate his life long savings which would otherwise have been subject to inheritance tax at the full rate of 40% when Charles died.

This was accomplished by this son and daughter team abusing their power of attorney and positions of trust as directors at the A@T to sell their Dad additional shares in his own company and then lying to him about it. This is proven by “Eddie” Curry’s own letters to his Dad. It is further fully corroborated by the Companies House records. They illegally siphoned off £250,250.00 of his savings on 24/4/2018, £350,000.00 on 24/4/2017 and £600,000.00 on 1/7/2015 in this way. Totalling over £1,200,000. This deception was designed to unlawfully move Charles personal life long savings into the business they controlled and were to inherit to remove their obligation to pay any inheritance tax on their Father’s personal savings when Charles’ passed away.

2) Step two. After the misappropriation of his savings the next stage of the scheme included making sure Charles received no income by way of dividends from his business during his final years on earth. As also confirmed by official Companies House records for the last 3 years his paper was run at a deliberate loss of some £600,000 by Charles’ son and daughter the benefactors of his will. This was accomplished by them using Charles’ newspaper business as a front to expense out the personal money they had cheated him out of. Therefore avoiding having to pay income tax on any new earnings due to Charles to further feather their own nests when they inherited.

3) Step three. Keep spending and illegally diverting the money your Father spent a lifetime making on setting up unrelated businesses you hope to profit from after his death under the guise of his business to avoid your tax obligations. First it was “Incuhive” and then “Hive Studios”. Both of these businesses were set up with the money these two intrepid pioneers cheated there Father out of in the last years of his life. Neither had anything to do with Charles’ newspaper business and are entirely different standalone business ventures which Charles had no rights to or legal interest in. In fact they are owned by an individual name Steve Northam who is listed as the owner of at least two dozen business at Companies House, none of which have ever been viable according to records. During this period of selfish and greedy ambition by these enterprising self serving siblings 21 jobs were sacrificed at the Advertiser and Times. Also undeniably confirmed by Companies House records.

Anyone who knew Charles will tell you he would have never sacrificed his newspaper’s people to fund new business ventures relating to “business mentoring” and “photography”. The idea is preposterous, he was a full blooded news man and always had been.

One of the rules of a lasting power of attorney is you do not do anything that the “donor” in this case Charles would not have done before the LPA was in place.

4) Step four. The cover up stage. This involves never answering the evidence but continuing to lie to deny what they have done including to readers of the paper to try to cover up the financial and psychological abuse they subjected their own elderly vulnerable Father too in the last years of his life.

Charles died on 2nd February 2019 stripped of his savings and income in a cramped modest care home room not at all suitable for his needs. He should have been in the Ritz with 24 hr care. He had the means to afford it, or used to have.

Maybe these two should answer the evidence, instead of telling the community they have been “exonerated” by the Office of the Public Guardian. They never have, as you have now seen that’s another lie. Nor has any court ever ruled on it, that’s a lie too.

For your consideration.

Below Mr. Edward Curry and Ms. Caroline Woodford
Misappropriated £1.200.000 of their vulnerable Dad’ savings.

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It was recently revealed by NMW the current directors of the local A@T newspaper Mr. Edward Curry and his sister Ms. Caroline Woodford had cheated their Father Mr. Charles Starr Curry MBE out of 1.25 million pounds by misappropriating his personal fortune by repeatedly selling him more shares in his own company.

This was accomplished by them misusing their lasting power of attorney (LPA) over his affairs and abusing their position of trust over the course of a 3 year period. Over which time his beloved paper also oddly operated at a substantial loss for the first time according to published official Companies House figures.

The share scam was carried out by “Eddie” signing on his Father’s behalf and then lying to him about it. Here what makes the crime even more insidious (if that’s at all possible) is the fact this exploitation as borne out by official Companies House records was implemented by the directors as an ongoing business strategy contrary to Charles’ best interests, which they had a legal duty to protect not only as his nominated “attorneys” under the LPA but also as the directors of his company. Not to mention the moral duty a son or daughter owes to a vulnerable parent. Charles passed away earlier this year without ever achieving the justice he sought and deserved or the truth being exposed.

Misappropriating a vulnerable 98 year old’s personal money in this way constitutes “elder abuse” a term I was not familiar with, and after researching it I discovered disturbingly this kind of financial and psychological abuse of the elderly happens more often than you might think.

“Action on elder abuse” a charity focusing attention on this deviant behaviour tells us:

• Elder abuse is a widespread problem that occurs across the UK and both in institutional care settings and private homes.

• AEA estimates, based on academic studies and polling, an incidence of around 9% of older people experiencing some form of abuse each year (physical, financial, psychological, sexual or neglect): approximately one million people.

• Despite this, the number of convictions for crimes against older people are suspiciously low: in 2016/7 there were just 2,856 successful convictions, or 0.3% of total estimated prevalence.

Often, the people who abuse older people are exploiting a special relationship. They are in a position of trust or have created an expectation of trust, whether through family bonds, friendship or through a paid caring role, and they exploit that trust.

In the experience of the helpline, most financial abuse/harm is perpetrated by family members, often sons and daughters, who seek to justify their actions e.g. by claiming that they are taking their inheritance ‘a bit early’.

Two common issues that come to our attention are (a) sons or daughters attempting to justify their actions on the basis that they are simply obtaining their inheritance in advance and (b) the misuse of Powers of Attorney. <–

Financial abuse/harm can happen because the older person can be seen as an easy way of getting money, particularly if they are dependent. It can happen because there is an assumption that the likelihood of criminal penalties is small if the perpetrator is caught. And it can happen because the current protective systems are weak.

Types of abuse and number of elderly in the population affected:

Financial Abuse (e.g. The misuse of power of attorney, theft, fraud) 162,000. <–
Physical Abuse (e.g. hitting, slapping, spitting) 325,000.
Sexual Abuse (e.g. Rape, unwanted sexual touching) 197,000.
Neglect (e.g. failure to meet basic needs such as food, drink or personal care) 58,000.

For more on this eye opening topic visit and support the very worthwhile charity “Action on elder abuse”:

https://www.elderabuse.org.uk/

To view the evidence on how Mr. Charles Starr Curry OBE was exploited (and knew it), see:

http://newmiltonwatch.co.uk/2020/02/13/new-milton-advertiser-and-lymington-times-how-the-directors-cheated-their-vulnerable-father-out-of-his-life-savings-to-feather-their-own-nests/

Elder abuse like child abuse is a heinous CRIME and those who commit it must not be allowed to profit from what is an affront to basic human decency. Like child abuse there has to be zero tolerance. However it is clearly yet another area where enforcement and accountability are once again just the figment of the authorities imagination and subject to the normal huge amount of political lip service and hot air. Not good enough.

For the public record and your consideration.

Pictured. The A@T directors who abused their positions of trust and cheated their own Father in 1.25 million pound share scam.

Left: Mr. “Eddie” Curry – the son
Right: Ms. Caroline Woodford – the daughter

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