‘She took him and his money’: How a granddaughter cut off her grandfather from his family

David remembers the moment he found his elderly stepfather, John, unkempt and suffering from dementia, living alone in an unclean hotel room.
“I didn’t think you’d leave an animal in the state that room was in,” he says. ” There was no care at all. You would not leave a vulnerable old man like that.”
Months earlier, John had vanished. His eldest granddaughter, Amy, had taken control of his welfare and his finances, and stopped any contact between John and the rest of his family, including Barbara, his wife of many years.
With Amy’s help, John had changed his will, making her the sole beneficiary, and had then been left to live by himself in a single room, confused and isolated.
John’s family was one of hundreds who contacted the BBC after hearing The Willpower Detectives last year.

Courtesy: BBC