Mum who was declared bankrupt after falling behind with daughter's school fees will now lose her home- By Sophie Evans

Maxine Turner-Hankinson, 47, who used to live in a £1.6million Barbados villa, is now being evicted from her home in the grounds of a Regency mansion in Derbyshire

Living the high life: Maxine Turner-Hankison is pictured in her £1.6million Barbados villa

A mother who was declared bankrupt after falling behind with her daughter's private school fees will now lose her country home following a series of family tragedies.
Maxine Turner-Hankinson, 47, who used to live in a £1.6million Barbados villa, permanently moved into a cottage in the grounds of a Regency mansion in Derbyshire in 2009.
She has experienced a barrage of heartbreaks over the past 25 years, including her husband dying from a brain tumour and her once-wealthy father-in-law suffering a catastrophic stroke.
She also went through a divorce and in 2013, she was made bankrupt after failing to maintain her daughter Megan's expensive fees at Abbots Bromley School for Girls in Staffordshire.
Now, the mother of two is facing homelessness after a judge ordered her out of her cottage on the £2.5million former family estate, called Etwall Lawn.

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She has been given just eight weeks to pack up and move out of the property.
Maxine's father-in-law, Stuart Turner, once earned a fortune as boss of thriving DIY business, Plasplugs Limited, in Burton-on-Trent, the High Court heard.
He and his wife, Erica, lived well on the profits and bought Etwall Lawn, a five-bedroom former dower house in the pretty village of Etwall, in the 1970s.


However, the house was heavily mortgaged after Plasplugs hit severe financial difficulties and finally went under in 2010.
The couple owed more than £1.5 million to the Allied Irish Bank and the family lost everything.
Stuart, a once 'highly successful' businessman, suffered a catastrophic stroke over the Christmas period in 2013 - just weeks before Etwall Lawn was due for repossession.

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Home of seven years: The mother of two permanently moved into the cottage in the grounds of a Regency mansion in 2009

He is now severely disabled and is cared for in a nursing home, said Judge Anthony Elleray QC.
The couple had already suffered a tragedy after their son, Alex Turner - Maxine's husband - died from a brain tumour in 1991.
And they were determined to preserve at least something for Maxine and their grandson, Alistair, now 27.


Andrew gained a job as a chef at Rick Stein's seafood restaurant in Padstow, Cornwall, after attending leading public school, Repton, which was paid for by his grandparents.
But now, the family's ruin is complete after Judge Elleray granted the bank possession of Maxine's cottage home on the Etwall Lawn estate - just two years after she was declared bankrupt.
Maxine, who re-married after Alex's death but is now divorced, claimed the cottage was hers and was not covered by the crushing mortgage on Etwall Lawn.

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Sprawling: The cottage sits on the £2.5million former family estate, called Etwall Lawn

The Turners did the cottage up and encouraged her to live there with Alistair when she was 'ill and fragile' after her husband's untimely death, she said.
But Judge Elleray said Maxine was 'mostly resident in Barbados' when the mortage was signed in 2005 and was 'not in actual occupation' of the cottage.


The mother and her second husband had borrowed about £1.6 million in 2007 to buy a home in the island's exclusive Atlantic Shores resort, in Christchurch.
And, although Maxine returned to the UK in 2009 and made the cottage her permanent home, she never bought it from her in-laws and lived there rent free.

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Pricey: Maxine's luxurious Barbados villa is built behind a set of pearly white gates

The fact that Alistair spent his Sundays at the cottage during term-time at Repton could also make no difference to the outcome, the judge ruled.
"I do not consider that Maxine ever thought that she had a beneficial interest in the cottage", Judge Elleray concluded.
The bank was granted a possession order and Maxine was given two months to leave the cottage.

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