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A NOTICE of appeal has been filed by a 59-year-old woman who was ordered by the High Court in January to repay almost $3 million after it was found that she had exercised undue influence over an elderly woman whose home was sold, and bank savings taken, before she was left in an elder care facility where she eventually died.

The appeal was filed on Tuesday by Nichola Shelley Ann Blanchfield, a clerk-typist and mother of five of Tacarigua, who is challenging the judgment delivered by High Court judge Justice Marissa Robertson.

In her ruling, Justice Robertson had ordered Blanchfield to repay $2,919,507.50 arising from her dealings with the elderly woman, Verna Mary Gottshalk, who was said to be in her nineties at the time the initial court action was filed.