Sixty-six-year-old Samuel Eaton pleaded guilty to four charges of breaching trading regulations. Eaton operated under two company names—The Pensioners Association and The Senior Citizen Advice Centre—and had contacted residents offering advice and services in regard to wills, trusts and power of attorney matters. Yet the wills and trust documents Eaton provided, which cost around £1,000, contained clauses that contradicted each other and would have required further legal action. Some of the elderly victims were contacted just after loved ones had passed; many are hoping that their vulnerabilities are taken into account when Eaton is sentenced.
See James Illingworth, Trader ‘Preyed on the Elderly’, Wigan Today, May 7, 2015.
