I know, Meg…you wouldn’t go and buy a house with it! 
I can understand them taking the money back, I’d have been expecting it but why did they take the extra £6 grand? That should not have happened.
@Rox , Transfer fees Rox, that’s how banks make their money !!
Just passing money over the banks counter costs money !!
Donkeyman! 
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Exactly … no one with a bit of commonsense would happily accept 110k into their bank account without making sure he was entitled to it. He must have thought fantastic …keep quiet.
He should have paid a solicitor, even if it cost him a grand, to check out this inheritance. You don’t take chances with that kind of lucky windfall. Get something official for future protection.
Besides, inheritances like that come direct from the solicitor or executor handling probate, not from the financial institution you happen to bank with. I’d have wondered then who had possession of my bank details to transfer such a sum over to me… and at least ask the bank the kind donor’s name.
He’s trying it on now … he’ll be doing a go fund me page next.
I paid a cheque into my account years ago that got lost … it wasn’t 110k but it was enough. I chased Barclays up, showed the proof in my paying in book and they reimbursed me out of a fund they apparently keep for transaction errors … because as they explained, someone else had had my money and they would have to trace it to sort it out. It’s usually sorting code errors that come unstuck on digital transactions.
Either he should have got/ should now produce something legal entitling him to this money or just say … ‘fair cop’ … though he shouldn’t have to pay 6k on top. Genuine error, not his fault. Arrange an affordable repayment plan. I doubt any court in the land would see him destitute.
From another angle it makes a mockery of anyone who suffered a financial loss through no fault of their own such as some devious scam and never get their own hard earned money back.
He’ll need to do something for that new house he’s taken to refurbishing! 
I wonder if he thought buying a house would somehow tie the money up so tight that the bank couldn’t get it back? 
Someone doing the Laundering may have got confused.
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But in September a customer of his former business rang him up and confessed he’d been the one to accidentally give the money to him.
So now we know whose money it really was.
The guy must have known it w as they his I mean if you have a rich relative or not.
Havinf said that Barclays is a rubbish bank and they must take some culpability