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Widower Thomas Wyness is fighting back after being targeted by scammers For nine years, widower Thomas Wyness was bombarded with letters telling him he’d won high-value cash prizes, televisions and cars. All he needed to do, the letters told him, was send a small sum of money to an overseas postbox to claim it. But … Read more
Eating alone at Christmas is better than dining with a vegetarian! Lonely widower, 75, who appealed for company REJECTS the only offer of company because ‘he’d rather eat on his own than have lettuce for lunch’ Tony Williams launched his appeal after losing his wife to cancer earlier this year He received several offers from … Read more
A widower who faced spending his 95th birthday alone received 400 birthday cards to mark the occasion after a social media appeal from a young pal went viral. Tommy Houston faced being on his own for his birthday on November 21 due to the coronavirus pandemic. But he received a windfall of cards from as … Read more
A heartbroken widower who survived a suicide pact with his French sweetheart wife of 70 years, went on to take his own life two years later, an inquest heard. Welsh businessman John Jules Leonidas Andre Faleur, 94, was found dead at his Denbighshire home earlier this year. The inquest at Ruthin County Hall today was … Read more
A widower who tried to meet new women by placing a lonely hearts advert in the local paper ‘was attacked and killed by drug addicts for his PIN number,’ a court heard. John Cornish, 75, died after suffering a cardiac arrest inside his home in Weymouth, Dorset following an ‘assault’ last September. The father was … Read more
A con artist who befriended a recently widowed pensioner and told ‘sob stories’ about being homeless has been jailed for 22 months. Susan Geary, 33, mercilessly preyed on the lonely 72-year-old, texting him that she loved him, wanted to live with him and they had a ‘great and true love’. The victim, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s … Read more
A lonely OAP who put up a poster asking for friends after his wife died has been inundated with thousands of calls and emails from people who want to be his pal. Tony Williams, 75, has received so many emails they crashed his inbox and he has had 100s of phone calls from new friends … Read more
Malcolm McDowell, 77, lands the role of a widower who is driven mad inside a haunted house after his wife dies in The Benefactor By Heidi Parker For Dailymail.com Published: 16:54 BST, 14 September 2020 | Updated: 16:57 BST, 14 September 2020 Malcolm McDowell has landed a new role in a horror movie. The 77-year-old … Read more
A lonely pensioner has put up a poster in his window asking for friends after the death of his wife left him totally isolated. Tony Williams, 75, often goes for days without speaking to anyone after his wife Jo, also 75, passed away in May. The retired physicist, who lives in Alton, East Hampshire, has no … Read more
A Romanian widower who was married to an 81-year-old British vicar 54 years his senior has said that he is now ready to collect the £150,000 life insurance and find ‘new love’. Florin Marin, 27, also banned his late husband Philip Clements’ family from attending his funeral and cremation in Romania after they called him … Read more