A 74-year-old widow has revealed she has to double-lock her doors after debt collectors tried to repossess her home. Anita Mozley, originally from Derby, moved to Spain in 2012 with her husband Geoff, who she sadly lost when he was 69, to leukaemia, as reported by DerbyshireLive.
She now faces a bizarre legal dispute, with her ideal retirement move turned into a nightmare. The pensioner now faces a "waiting game" and is forced to lock her doors, claiming enforcement agents knock on her door informing her that she no longer owns her house.
Mr and Mrs Mozley attended a property exhibition in Derby in 2005, after which they decided to purchase a home in La Murada outside the city of Orihuela, in the province of Alicante.
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The home was purchased via a company called Atlas which has since dissolved. Mrs Mozley says the couple paid a deposit of £2,121.57 and more instalments over the next nine months to Atlas and solicitors Aroca Seiquer & Asociado.
In February 2006, she claims she and her husband then signed for the purchase of the property, paying the last €5,7711.25 to the builder. But in 2018, Mrs Mozley says she then had to go to court - costing her, she claims, €20,000 - and attained a court order as the builder of her home aimed to repossess the house.
Four neighbouring properties whose owners did not go to court, Mrs Mozley says, have been repossessed, and she has been visited by debt collectors, who have made her feel "scared" and "harassed".
Mrs Mozely told DerbyshireLive: "I've double locked all my doors, they are locked now even though it's not dark yet. I still feel so anxious. This week it's the holidays here in Spain, for the New Year and the three kings. I don't think anybody is working as much as they normally do. I'm trying to be positive it's no good being anything other.
"I fear I'll have to go back to the UK, but I don't have anywhere else to go. Here I'll get more support than in the UK. Hopefully, I won't get rehoused, it's just a waiting game, unfortunately.
A spokesperson from Aroca Seiquer & Asociados told DerbyshireLive in November 2022: “We are unable to make any comment about any potential clients, current or past, in accordance with the Data Protection Act."
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