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Sarah Vesty

Scottish Power slap grandad with £2k bill as dodgy meter battle leaves OAP freezing in home

A Scots grandad with dementia was forced to turn his heating off during winter after being wrongly hit with a £2k bill by Scottish Power.

Michael Hanley sat in his freezing Port Glasgow home as his family battled to get a dodgy electricity meter replaced during a two-and-a-half year debacle.

The energy supplier was first told of the fault in August 2019 by the 90-year-old’s daughter, Maria Houston, who noticed the device wasn’t recording any data.

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