Inside The £157M Meltdown That Wiped Out Small Real Estate Investors — And The Questions Godwin Capital Still Won't Answer

Barchart·12/10/2025 20:24:28

Like so many parents, retired British Airways pilot David Giles, 68, wanted to help his eldest daughter and her husband buy their first home and start a family.  In 2022, after three decades in the cockpit and an inheritance from his late parents, he went looking for a secure, low-risk place to park the money — something that would grow into a house deposit by the time they were ready. A friend introduced him to a financial adviser at Holborn Assets, who pitched what sounded ideal: loan notes issued by a company called Godwin Capital, which, he was told, would use his...