A trusting pensioner's £4million Belgravia home was wrecked after a tenant changed the locks and secretly sublet the property to droves of tourists on booking sites.
The four-bedroom London pad has been owned by Anabel Loyd's family for over three decades, and more recently the 69-year-old's mother decided to officially hand her the home.
After renting it out to family 'here and there', as well as a successful stint hiring it out as an AirBnB to various tourists, the Wiltshire woman decided to turn the property into long-term let due to 'slower periods during the winter'.
A family friend worked for Foxtons estate agents so she decided to go ahead with the firm, and soon a potential tenant emerged hoping for a two-year contract, which the 69-year-old accepted with break clauses, and a rent of £1,600-a-week.
They passed all of the estate agents checks, so Ms Loyd assumed all was well - but things started to go wrong almost immediately.
