So, let's make sure that we have all got this right, shall we?
1) A lady befriended Frank's father and was told at the start that Frank was on the land certificate as a half owner of the house and that the other half was left to him in his father's will.
Note that the first move seems to have been the lady's rather than Frank's father's so perhaps the joint ownership of this now famous (on gransnet) house was not quite such a strange topic to discuss when beginning a relationship as it first appears.
2) Frank was living with his father in the large four-bedroom detached property in Sutton Coldfield as his wife had passed away and he had early retirement and a London pension.
Frank has not yet specified whether he considers the house large because it has four bedrooms or if it is genuinely large in addition to having four bedrooms. No doubt he will clarify this point in the future.
3) The unnamed lady never stayed overnight in the house as she owned her own more modest house.
Frank is probably too much of a gentleman to pursue any other ideas that might provide a reason why the lady didn't stay overnight even in one of the two spare bedrooms. The number of bedrooms in the more modest house has not been specified.
4) Some 18 months into the relationship with Frank's father, the lady demanded that Frank should leave and take the dog with him.
Clearly, the lady had not listened to or not understood the explanation about the ownership of the house that she had been given 18 months earlier. For those who have not been following carefully, the dog is called Andie*.
5) Frank then described how his father "jumped in and said in very uncertain terms that was not going to happen". The lady then left.
I suspect that the jumping father actually made his intentions clear in no uncertain terms.
6) Three years later Frank's father passed away and the following morning the lady, who had not been in touch in the intervening period, telephoned Frank to ask when he would be leaving the house and handing it over to her.
It is not known, even to Frank, how she found out about his father's passing so speedily.
7) During the next nine months Frank was unable to walk down the street without somebody approaching him and asking him when he was going to hand over the house. Recently, this popular support for the lady's false claim to the property has fizzled out.
Frank reckons that as many as 20 people were involved in this harassment and even abuse**.
8) Last week one of the lady's friends told Frank that she was in hospital. He decided not to contact her. Later he was told she had died.
He celebrated this news.
9) When he was walking down the street over the weekend one of the lady's supporters said that he should give her family £100,000. He does not intend to do so.
It is not known why this particular sum was specified or whether Frank possesses it.
* Frank and his father jointly owned Andie who still lives with Frank in the large four-bedroom detached property in Sutton Coldfield. Andie is a male dog.
** Frank can supply details of the repairs and maintenance costs he shouldered, including a new bathroom installed in the June after the lady had ended her relationship with his father.
Frank