Judge doubted woman’s testimony about close relationship with man’s children
The B.C. Supreme Court has ordered a Richmond woman to pay her dead boyfriend’s estate $400,000 in damages after it decided she took advantage of his vulnerable circumstances and spent money he had intended to leave his children.Postmedia News isn’t including the name of the 47-year-old man to protect the identity of his children, who were aged nine and 11 when he died.
She also claimed that her boyfriend sent her $350,000 a few days before he died to pay her back for her years of working to support the family. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Janet Winteringham found there were inconsistencies in Warriner’s claims about her relationship with the boyfriend and his transfer of money to her.
“Ms. Warriner’s evidence on the date she moved into the was equivocal and inconsistent with the totality of the evidence presented, including the documentary record,” she wrote. There was testimony from the boyfriend’s sister and niece in support of Warriner’s claim, but the judge rejected these because their timelines were unreliable.
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