A 55-year-old Nigerian woman, June Ashimola, who was falsely declared d€ad, has appeared via video link from Nigeria before the UK High Court to prevent a convicted fr@udster from seizing her £350,000 home in Woolwich, southeast London.
Ashimola was reportedly declared deceased in February 2019, leading to a lengthy legal battle over her estate. However, she presented herself before Deputy Master John Linwood to assert that she was alive and had fallen victim to a sophisticated scam.
The court heard that after she was wrongly declared dead, Power of Attorney over her estate—primarily the property—was granted to Ms Ruth Samuel on behalf of Bakare Lasisi, who claimed to have married Ashimola in 1993.
