When Kathleen Smith died at the grand old age of 90, she would have been proud to leave behind a successful son, four beautiful grandchildren and a six-figure inheritance to make life for them that little bit easier.
‘She bought a retirement flat for £124,000 in 2006 and died eight years later, probably thinking it had gone up in value like most other properties in the country,’ says her son, Michael, an Oxfordshire-based academic. ‘Isn’t that what we all want