Baroness who transferred savings to Svengali lawyer could lose money after he declares bankruptcy dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
An aristocrat has won the first round of her High Court battle with a solicitor who she claims tricked her out of her £2m life savings - after telling the judge she has to beg, steal and borrow in order to be able to survive .
Baroness Jacqueline Van Zuylen says she was desperate and suffering sleepless nights about the whereabouts of her millions after handing them to solicitor Rodney Whiston-Dew to invest on her behalf in 2012.
Mr Whiston-Dew, 70, is currently in prison after after being jailed in 2017 for his role in a £65m tax scam, then subsequently stuck off.
Baroness van Zuylen is now suing him, demanding her money back, plus damages, while the disgraced lawyer denies any wrongdoing.
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