Police Scotland after they failed to notify the family of his sudden death five months earlier. Stacey Pickles, who lives in Lancashire, received a letter in February stating that someone had made a claim against dad Gerard McNulty’s pension after he had passed away.
The 55-year-old, who suffered from PTSD and alcohol dependency issues after his time in the armed forces, was known to lose contact with loved ones for extended periods of time.
But when his eldest daughter received the alarming letter, the family began making enquiries and discovered he had sadly passed away at his Wishaw home in September 2020.The family’s grief was worsened when they were told that someone else, who was not known to the family, had been wrongly identified as.
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