Grandfather’s £145,000 estate is wiped out instead of being passed onto his family because of plummeting value of his ‘unsellable’ retirement flat

A lifelong charity volunteer’s £145,000 fortune was wiped out instead of being passed to his grieving children – after it was eaten up by the plunging value of his retirement flat.

The children of churchgoer Antony Whelton, known as Tony, say he has ‘nothing to show for his life’ after he purchased an apartment at Kingsley Court in Aldershot, Hampshire with his wife Audrey for £185,950 in 2008.

Mr Whelton, who received the Queen’s Maundy money in recognition of his fundraising works in 2006, sold their home and took out a £50,000 loan to be repaid after his death in order to

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