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My uncle was a really, really clever guy, but became an alcoholic and probable drug addict.

He lived interstate with my grandmother, told us she was happy, healthy etc and that she was living in a nursing home that was paid for by her pension, and the huge amounts of savings she had. Hed even make up stupid stories about hijinks she was getting up to with other residents. Hed apparently started up his own business and was doing really well.

In reality, he let my grandmother die in a chair covered in her own waste, because he couldnt be bothered looking after her properly, just so he could steal her pension. Her bank account was drained and someone tried to draw on her pension after she died. He was unemployed, after being fired for turning up to work drunk.

When she died, my mum and I went up there to help with the funeral and the house was unliveable. Huge mounds of trash and human feces smeared over everything in every room.

He ended up being charged with manslaughter, but ended up getting a suspended sentence. My mum ended up using the sale of my grandmothers house (only worth the value of the land, the house was ruined) to pay for his legal fees, as well as to pay back the pension payments that were illegally drawn.

I looked him up a few years back, and he died in 2010. No great loss.