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• Alternatieve naam: Ian James MASCARD
• Hij is geboren op 22 oktober 1956 in Solihull, Warwickshire, England.Bronnen 1, 2
• Hij is overleden mei 1996 in Henley-In-Arden, Warwickshire, England, hij was toen 39 jaar oud.Bron 2
• Een kind van James Bertram Myatt MASCORD en Coralie Elsie SANGLIER
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 6 april 2019.

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'Bitterness doesn't help' - widow; Accountant shot himself over crooked lawyer client.
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The widow of an accountant who shot himself after learning a solicitor he worked for had stolen cash from clients said her husband was driven to suicide after he was duped by the conman.

Mrs Tania Mascord, from Solihull, said she was devastated at the death of her 39-year-old husband Mr Ian Mascord, whose body was discovered by police in Birmingham Road, Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire, in May 1996.

But Mrs Mascord had never felt bitterness towards lawyer Andrew Norman Payne, who was jailed on Thursday for five years after admitting stealing more than pounds 500,000 left by his clients to charities and relatives.

"Andrew Payne has ruined his own life. What the law does to him is secondary to that," said Mrs Mascord.

"He has wrecked his career and presumably done a lot of damage to his family."

Coventry Crown Court was told that Mr Mascord, an accountant who had Payne and Co among his clients, had been totally unaware of the lawyer's massive deception. He was horrified when he discovered the fraud and committed suicide.

His body was found in his Ford Mondeo Estate with a shotgun by his side.

Mrs Mascord, of Frankholmes Drive, Monkspath, said she was pleased her husband had now been vindicated following Payne's trial.

"I knew my husband didn't do anything wrong. He became very agitated two or three days before he committed suicide when he became aware that Andrew Payne was being investigated," she said. "My husband over-reacted. When Ian learned Andrew Payne had tried to commit suicide it worried him to such an extent that he feared for his own professional reputation.

"At this stage, I feel Andrew Payne is being punished by his own conscience, but I'm not angry about what happened.

"I feel Ian's death was so unnecessary, and I felt cross with him at times for overreacting to a situation where he had been duped by a conman.

"But I'm not a vengeful or vindictive person. Bitterness doesn't help and it prevents you from putting tragedy behind you."

Mrs Mascord, who had two children, Sasha, aged four, and Adam, aged seven, with her husband, said she had tried to lead as normal a life as possible and shield the children from what happened.

Payne (46), of Spring Lane, Packington, Ashby de la Zouch, who ran his own firm of conveyancing specialists Payne and Co in High Street, Knowle, stole pounds 480,000 left in the will of one of his clients.

Half of the money should have gone to the Royal National Lifeboat Institute and half to Birmingham Dogs Home.

Payne also persuaded a life insurance company to send him two cheques of almost pounds 60,000 each that had been left to the daughters of another deceased client.

The crooked lawyer's actions were uncovered in 1996, five years after the first acts of dishonesty began. Payne was struck off the Solicitors' Register.
1998 Birmingham Post & Mail Ltd

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