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Couple told they never owned Gold Coast home they bought now fear legal costs could ruin them

The Queensland Supreme Court found the home Jess and Jackie Morecroft thought they owned still belonged to the previous owner. (ABC News: Steve Keen)

A Gold Coast couple who found out the house they bought never belonged to them five years after they moved in has been ordered to pay the legal costs of the woman who sued them.

In February, the Queensland Supreme Court ruled Jess and Jackie Morecroft’s Mermaid Beach home still belonged to the previous owner – 83-year-old Hind Issa – and was never transferred into their names, despite being sold and paid for.

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