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Woman declared dead appears in court to save £350,000 estate
2025-03-11 23:49:16 / BOTA
A woman wrongly declared dead has appeared in court via live video from Nigeria to stop a fraudster from taking her £350,000 London property.
June Ashimola, 55, was declared dead in February 2019 in her home country, sparking a huge battle over her estate. She appeared in court, claiming she was still alive and the victim of a fraud.
High Court Judge John Linwood heard that Ms Ashimola had brought a claim after being wrongly declared dead. Ashimola had left Britain in 2018 for Nigeria and had not returned.
In October 2022, her estate was given to Mrs. Ruth Samuel in the name of Bakare Lasisi, who claimed to have married Ashimola in 1993.
However, the judge declared that Ashimola was the victim of a fraud and that Lasisi did not exist. It was claimed that Ashimola had died in Nigeria in 2019, and a fabricated death certificate was presented to the court.
Ashimolah rejected the death certificate, calling it a forgery, and demanded that the grants to her estate and house in Woolwich, London, be cancelled.
Judge Linwood called the case an unusual lawsuit, as the woman who claimed to be dead was still alive. He concluded that the death certificate had been forged and that a person claiming to be Ashimola's husband, Bakare Lasisi, did not exist.
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