Gordon and a bit more.
Some of us have more problems than others and Gordon had his share. I have mentioned the problem Gordon had with Electricity bills but there were others he told me about (land and 3 wheeler) and I was present when he was attacked by Lalith Lakmal.
The day after my wedding I returned to my house to collect some items that had been left there by my wife’s family, because of the previous days events with the deeds I also wanted to see the deeds, I went there with a male relative of my wife, his friend, a driver, and Gordon in a mini bus, the driver stayed in the vehicle whilst the relative and friend sat indoors, Gordon and myself were outside, we had already loaded the items to take away when Saman arrived with a copy of the deeds. Shortly afterwards Lalith Lakmal (Saman’s father in law) arrived and immediately launched a verbal assault on Gordon, he got very close to Gordon and was shouting and waving his arms about, he started to leave but returned and actually took hold of Gordon and started hitting him and ordering to leave, Saman joined in and was “patting” his back pocket saying he had a gun, at about the same time Saman became aware that there were others around and ordered the two who were in the house to get in the mini bus, Gordon was also manhandled into the mini bus, Gordon was very shook up by this attack especially as at the time it seemed motiveless, I was unable to help Gordon as Saman had told me to stay where I was, reminding me that he was armed, I tried to get on the minibus but was held back, Lalith was telling the driver to go, (he was doing his best to wait for me) and they eventually left under threat of being shot by Saman. I was very frightened by all this and by being “alone” but once the minibus left Saman and his father in law acted as though nothing had really happened, during the commotion Eranga showed up at the bottom of the drive, he seemed delighted by the events, perhaps because I had previously banned him from the property. Saman then assured me that I was safe and no harm would come to me, I asked him if he did have a gun as none of us had seen it, he replied that he had a pistol and again tapped his back pocket. Lalith had left and a while later Saman left, I waited a while and gathered some items of clothing, just before I left Gordon phoned to check if I was OK.
The reason for the attack must have been, “The con trick was going nicely to plan and the family could have had me kicked out of the country at any time for visa violations” Saman had assured me that if I kept my head down and lived a quite life no one would know I was there and I would not need a visa, (my dodgy visa had already expired) I think he was making sure I had absolutely no money left before getting me kicked out, he was opening my bank statements so knew my financial situation, ironic that his ultimate greed could be his downfall, However getting married saved me from being deported as I automatically qualified for a spouses visa. Now I knew about the deeds being made out in Saman’s wife’s name and had a legitimate visa the family must have realised their well made plan was going badly wrong, they had lost their control over me and they knew I would fight back, Lalith had found out that Gordon had played a major part in me getting married and was blaming Gordon because his daughter probably would not get “her new house” easily, though I later visited the house and she was proudly showing friends round.
When Gordon bought his land there were 2 other small areas of land at separate but nearby locations, Gordon had the deeds for the large area of land where he built his properties but had difficulty getting the deeds for the 2 small areas, after quite a time had passed Gordon found out that the deeds for these areas had been put in a different name, sadly as is often the case it was not really worth the expense, trouble and lengthy legal battle to get the land returned to him, had there been houses on the land then it would have been different, There are lawyers involved in land deed changes and they are aware of what is going on, they rely on the difficulties that non nationals will encounter in the legal system. They too seem to believe that all Europeans are so rich they can afford to be robbed, the same person who cheated Gordon out of the 2 small areas of land also took the three wheeler that Gordon had bought, I’m not too sure how the three wheeler was purchased or in whose name as Gordon has returned to Europe. All Gordon’s losses can be put down to trusting the wrong people!
Frank also lost land, his “dream” was to have a nice house and swimming pool, he bought the land but as work progressed he realised he would not be able to afford the pool, when he later visited the property to check on progress the walls surrounding the property were built and he could not help but notice that his garden area was much smaller than it should be, he was told that as he was not having a pool he would not need the extra land, finances then dictated that Frank gave up on his dream and he sold the property and returned to the UK, He later returned to live with his wife in a “family” house with her relatives but so many things went missing that he decided to return to the UK for good.
Paul and Wendy are able to financially weather storms better than many but have had their share of being overcharged in the past, Paul had purchased enough blocks to build a wall around his new property and went to see how the walls were progressing to discover that as well as no walls there were no blocks, however some of the neighbours had nice new walls,
Buying land can be fraught with difficulties, In my case I was happy enough with what I paid for my land, and quite happy to pay for a JCB to clear and level the land, in fact I was amazed that it cost so little seeing as a small fleet of lorries were taking away the surplus soil, later I found out that I should have paid nothing for the work as the soil is actually purchased at X amount per lorry load, Simon bought some land but his Sri Lankan wife is the true owner, she got the land at the right (local) price and needed to only pay stamp duty, the land was on a steep hillside and has been levelled ready for building, there was so much soil removed that Simon almost got his money back .The land each side of Simons land is also for sale the plot on the right being half as big again, ergo it should cost halve as much again but no, a European is buying it and is paying 5 times more per perch of land.
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