World news | The Guardian•Apr 22
British woman died in Ghana trying to recoup money from scammers, inquest told
A British woman who was scammed out of up to £1m in a string of so-called romance frauds died in a road crash after travelling to west Africa to try to recoup some of her lost fortune, an inquest in Devon has heard. The retired housekeeper, 69, travelled to Ghana after a man there told her he could help her get some of her money back but she was killed in a car crash as he drove. ” Senior coroner Philip Spinney said there were “some inconsistencies and gaps in the evidence” about the crash and that the incident had not been rigorously scrutinised.
