A MUM who devoted years of her life to the London Fire Brigade has been left devastated after losing her pension of £170,000 in a cruel scam.
Cath Mulalley, 55, decided to take out life insurance and invest her life savings after a surgery complication left her husband Carl disabled and unable to work.
The pair have a 10-year-old daughter, and her future was at the forefront of their minds.
And despite going through a local bank branch to transfer £170,000 into what she thought was an investment fund, Cath was caught in a “sophisticated scam” and is battling to get her life savings back.
She told The Mirror: “Apart from sheer panic, it’s quite hard to describe how I feel.
“I have panic attacks about what I’m going to do because I just don’t know.”
The now-55-year-old left her job at the London Fire Brigade in 2008 when she and Carl moved to New Zealand.
She took with her the hefty pension she’d built up over her years committed to the fire service.
But, after Carl was left unable to work, the pair thought it would be wise to put money in a safe place for their daughter, Eva.
Cath had filled out an online form for insurance cover in June, so it came as no surprise when she picked up a call from a man claiming to be an investments advisor for Citibank in New Zealand a few days later.
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