The day my bank told me my husband had gambled away all my money and our house...
and why I decided to stay with him By Susie Chan Published: 02:13, 14 June 2024 | Updated: 02:13, 14 June 2024 e-mail View comments The kind lady from Lloyds pulled up the mortgage account on her computer. Blinking at the screen, she went as white as a sheet; I could see her trying to compose herself enough to form a sentence. ‘What is it?’ I panicked, feeling the blood draining from me.
I’d gone into the branch after discovering the account I shared with my husband had been drained of funds, the overdraft maxed out. Susie walked out of the bank branch in a daze, feeling as though life as she knew it was vanishing before her eyes By the time she stepped off the train home an hour later, she was raging. By the time her husband walked in the door, she told him to get out Two days earlier, my credit card, which I barely used, got declined.
I called the bank, who said it had been taken to its limit by someone who knew my PIN and had been making regular £200 cash withdrawals at an ATM near my home for months now. Yet, as far as I knew, the card had remained safely tucked inside my purse. I certainly hadn’t withdrawn that cash.
Now, I had been ushered into a room, where this lady was busy freezing my accounts. And she was clearly about to deliver some very bad news about my mortgage. If that wasn’t terrifying enough, it was looking more and more certain that I knew the culprit very well i.
