Statement

   

In 2005 Mr Frank Kingston asked me to draw up his will and nominate myself as Executor, so I purchased a Post Office will kit and filled it out per his instructions.

I was mentioned as a potential beneficiary so in order to avoid what I thought might have been a conflict of interest, I asked Mr Kingston to complete the space for Executor himself and left the Will with him to sign in the presence of witnesses. It transpired that his carers, employees of the Mercy Alms in Waterloo, since taken over by Catholic Community Care, completed and witnessed the Will, apparently inadvertently nominating one of their number, a Mr Bridge Andrews, as Executor. I didn’t view the completed Will at the time, which was held in safe keeping by his carers, and assumed I had been nominated Executor, an assumption Mr Kingston confirmed on many occasions both to myself, right up until our last meeting a month and a half before he passed, as well as to his daughter and principal beneficiary, Ms Carol Shields (ph. 00116498324820), a resident of New Zealand, and his best mate, Barry Powell (mob. 0412478611).

Ms Shields visited her father a few weeks before his death and returned to New Zealand with his Will. When Mr Kingston passed I contacted Ms Shields, who sent me a copy of the Will annotated by a Justice of the Peace, whereupon I discovered that the carers had nominated one of themselves as Executor rather than myself as Mr Kingston, as far as I am aware, had intended. Mr Powell contacted Sharon (mob. 0419917771) of Catholic Community care, who was able to trace Mr Andrews, no longer an employee. Barry informed me Mr Andrews phoned and advised him he had no knowledge or recollection of being nominated as Mr Kingston’s Executor.

I subsequently assumed the role of Administrator of Mr Kingston’s affairs.

      

Philip McKeon

406/43 Morehead Street, Redfern. NSW 2016

mob. 0404254328

29 June, 2012