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Chloe Hadjimatheou

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1048 total appearances

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The Walkers seemed to be doing OK, though, with new cars and holiday homes.

But by 2008, Martin Hemmings was in serious trouble.

He wasn't even sure he could pay Sally and the rest of the small team their salaries.

Rose remembers how stressed he was.

It wasn't a lot, but the ยฃ600 would at least ensure the staff got paid.

But sometime later, when Martin tried to access the money in his business account, he couldn't find it.

The bank manager knew Martin well and she could see how distressed he was.

When Martin Hemmings died in 2012, Ros sold that estate agents and it was taken over by someone else.

And it's still operating as an estate agents today.

It's been refurbished in recent years, but the layout of the old shop hasn't changed all that much.

And then where would Sally work?

Sally worked on the top floor.

Was that because she needed quiet to sort of do the books?

Walking around Porthelly, I feel like such a Londoner.

People greet Ros as she walks down the street in a way that you'd never get in my neighbourhood.

It's clearly a tight-knit community, which is why I think what happened to the Hemmings family business was all the more shocking.

Because people in this working-class Welsh village aren't particularly well-off, and they certainly weren't well-off in 2008.

ยฃ600 was quite a bit of money to go missing.

So up the road here is the bank.