‘I can’t remember using his cash for that £39k necklace – I was drunk’

A ‘home will writer’ accused of conning a 94-year-old man out of a fortune claims he cannot remember trying to buy a £39,000 necklace with the pensioner’s cash because he was drunk at the time. Anthony McErlean, 73, gained power of attorney over George Manwill and moved him into an old people’s home after helping him sell his house, Woolwich Crown Court heard. Mr Manwill received a cold call from a will writing service and McErlean turned up at his…