Charles Gilpin and solicitors Tughan & Co then conspired to seize and sell Freddie's family home, "Tara House", which the Little King Street property and all the other city-centre properties were meant to support and maintain. This seizure and sale and the seizure and sale of Freddie's Little King Street property were planned and carried out without any notice to, or communication with, any member of our family. It was covert in the extreme and the reason is now so obvious to everyone except, it would seem, the Official Solicitors to the Supreme Court. The sale of "Tara House" was totally against the wishes of my father and that sale automatically made the sale of any of the other properties utterly and completely fraudulent. Here in this second sale by Gilpin assisted by Tughan & Co is the proof that criminal activity, criminal theft and criminal fraud were being planned and perpetrated. Here is the proof that my father's wishes were being totally ignored and that the selling off of these properties was not only NOT in the interests of my mother and my brother, but these substantial properties were being stolen off my mother and my brother by people who had no right to interfere in any way with our family affairs.
Of course, Freddie and my mother being resident in "Tara House" was rather blocking the plans of Gilpin and Tughan & Co but they didn't let that get in their way.
Charles Gilpin knew the property market. He chose a derelict house in need of major repair to accommodate my mother and Freddie, removed them from "Tara House" without any reference to the other family members, and put them into 4 Norwood Gardens. Gilpin and solicitors Tughan & Co actually arranged for Freddie, my mentally-handicapped brother Freddie with a mental age of ten years, to obtain a bridging loan from the Ulster Bank even though Freddie's signature was legally worthless. Oh yes, Freddie had to BUY his new derelict home.

Charles Gilpin and Tughan & Co criminally dispossessed my mother and Freddie in more ways than one. Firstly, my mother and Freddie were unlawfully evicted from their own property which was theirs for life and which even they could not legally sell. Secondly, the 'selling' price was kept to a minimum in order to deprive my mother and especially Freddie of the money such a valuable property should have commanded. It was only much later when things had 'quietened down' somewhat that the real value of the house was determined by market forces. This was achieved by ensuring that a solicitor, yes, another solicitor, G P Jemphrey, was put into "Tara House" as caretaker at the time my mother and Freddie were dispossessed. The most shocking dispossession occurred in the High Court, when even a High Court Judge who should, must, have known better, confirmed the minimal value of "Tara House", thereby confirming the criminality of this fraud and giving it the stamp of legality by the highest power in Northern Ireland.

I took photographs of my mother's and Freddie's new 'home' at 4 Norwood Gardens having looked around it previously in disbelief at where my mother and Freddie were now living. This house, I was to learn, had been on the market for a considerable length of time and was in a very run-down state. It was damp. Paper was hanging off the walls. Repairs which had been done were left unfinished. The bath was broken. It was just a horrible mess compared to what my mother and Freddie had been accustomed to for so many years.

With Freddie and my mother now out of the way, Charles Gilpin wasted no time. About six months after the seizure and 'sale' of Freddie's Little King Street property, Charles Gilpin put the following advertisement in the Belfast Telegraph stating that "Tara House" - or "Tara" - as he called it, was for sale. He used his own estate agency Ulster Property Sales to advertise "Tara House".

It must be remembered that Freddie could not give his legal consent for this sale and my mother had no legal right to sell it as it was not hers to sell. Such details did not stop Charles Gilpin and Tughan & Co.

I hope the following will serve to demonstrate the shocking conduct of not only Charles Gilpin and Tughan & Co, but at a later date Official Solicitors, senior counsel, estate agents and valuers, other solicitors and even High Court Judges who became involved in what has turned out to be gang warfare on Freddie Andrews' lucrative estate.

I will concentrate on three of the properties in the above advertisment, "Tara House", Freddie's home, which has no suggested asking price and two of the properties which have suggested asking prices. On an open market the sale price is almost always much higher.
As you can see from the above, the estate agency which was selling all these houses was Ulster Property Sales. Ulster Property Sales was Charles Gilpin's own Company, so he had complete control over the 'sale' of "Tara House".
As you will have seen in the previous web page, in Official Solicitor Hall's First Comprehensive Report to the High Court on 30 January 1984, he stated at paragraph 9:

9. Dwelling house: 14 Castlehill Road.
The Patient acquired the dwelling house at 14 Castlehill Road, Belfast, which had been the family home for many years, by an Assignment dated 17 November 1960 from his father. I have been informed by Messrs Desmond McConnell, Martin & Co that although their 'sale file' relating to this property is no longer available [Again! How utterly convenient, Mr. Hall!] (since their original premises at 9 Upper Queen Street were damaged in a bomb explosion on 27 August 1976) their recollection is that verbal instructions to proceed with the sale were received from Mrs Minetta Andrews.

Why did Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court, Mr. Hall, tell the High Court Judge a deliberate lie?

Here is the above picture of "Tara House" and its UPS description on its own.

It was only with the publication of the above advertisment in the Belfast Telegraph that our family became aware that the beautiful home we grew up in was being 'sold'. We did not know even then that part of Freddie's city centre property at Little King Street had already been 'sold' off without our knowledge. We did not know that all my father's papers, deeds and documents had already been transferred out of the family solicitors, Boston & Sullivan and placed in the firm of Tughan & Co by Charles Gilpin without the family's knowledge. We did not know that even the strictly private family safe would be removed by men employed by Charles Gilpin and would never be seen again.

Notwithstanding another valuation of £50,500, estate agent and valuer, Mr. Deane, confirmed, even to a High Court Judge, that the proper value of "Tara House" was £38,750 and the Judge accepted this lower figure. It must be remembered that "Tara House" had been built nearly 60 years previously for around £37,000. "Tara House" was 'sold' to solicitor G P Jemphrey who was high up in the Law Courts, on the first day it was offered for sale. You see, the idea was to pay as little as possible to Freddie, even nothing at all if they could get away with it, after getting rid of him, place a friendly, sharing person in the house and then 'make a killing' when the house would be resold and the profits shared among the perpetrators of this heinous crime.

Some years after "Tara House" was taken off Freddie and our mother and 'resold', this is how "Tara House" was again described in a brochure prepared by Estate agent Eric Cairns.
On this occasion "Tara House", on the open market, was 'sold' again for almost £500,000.00! Legally and morally, "Tara House" still belongs to Freddie. All those who have occupied Freddie's properties from the beginning until now are merely squatters. This was to include the great John Laing firm and the CastleCourt complex.

Had Tara House been advertised for sale at £38,750 in the Belfast Telegraph in 1974, the Belmont area of Belfast would have been brought to a standstill with the thousands of people rushing to purchase it, and then it would have been 'sold' to the highest bidder. Gilpin and Tughan & Co could not allow that to happen. Hence the reason it was knocked down to solicitor Jemphrey as the pre-arranged 'buyer' without any competition.

Here is a picture from the above block of advertisments of "Flat 1/105 Marlborough Park South, Malone" and its UPS description on its own.

This small apartment, tiny in comparison to "Tara House", had an asking price of £35,500, just £3,250 less than "Tara House" was 'sold' for. This apartment probably fetched even more than "Tara House" as it was sold on the open market, unlike "Tara House" which was knocked down to Jemphrey without any competition.

Here is a picture from the above block of advertisments of "111 Trossachs Drive, Upper Malone, Belfast" and its UPS description on its own.

Like "Tara House", this house boasts 5 bedrooms, but falls far short of "Tara House" in every other way. In fact it is only about one third of the size of "Tara House", 111 Trossachs Drive being "around 1500 sq. ft" while "Tara House" was over 4000 sq. ft. Yet the asking price for 111 Trossachs Drive is almost £70,000 and must have sold for quite a bit more on the open market - at least £75,000.


The true market value of "Tara House" at the time it was seized and stolen from my brother and my mother will never be known. Based on the very relevant information in the advertisment above which was paid for by Charles Gilpin's company Ulster Property Sales, "Tara House", at the time it was advertised, should have carried an 'Offers Around' tag well in excess of £100,000. Yet here is what the High Court Judge decided!

Here is a rear view of "Tara House" which gives you some idea of the splendour of the place and which made it so attractive to unscrupulous and professional thieves.

Castlehill Road runs off the Upper Newtownards Road and up alongside Stormont Parliament Buildings. This is a favourite area for the top businessmen, members of the legal profession and top members of the police service. It is inconceivable that the High Court Judges, RUC officers, estate agents and valuers and Official Solicitors involved in this dirty affair were unaware of the true value of "Tara House" at 14 Castlehill Road, Belmont, Belfast. All these people were closely involved with each other in the lowest of low conduct in order to rob my handicapped brother of the property his father left him.

Here is the remarkable "Completion Statement" prepared by Belfast's biggest firm of solicitors Tughan & Co for the 'sale' of 14 Castlehill Road, Belfast. They incurred a debt in my brother Freddie's name in order to obtain a bridging loan from Ulster Bank. I use the word "debt" because the filthy, damp and derelict state of 4 Norwood Gardens prevented this 'dwelling' from being proper security for any amount of money.

As you can see, the above is an official Tughan & Co document and my mentally-handicapped brother Freddie is the "You" in "You - to - Jemphrey" and the dwelling involved is 14 Castlehill Road, Belfast.

Gilpin was very well aware of Freddie's mental incapacity and behaved in a most despicable and illegal manner. He was also in possession of my father's Will and knew that my father had appointed legal Trustees to look after his estate. Neither he nor any member of the Tughan & Co staff were Guardians of Freddie or my mother and had no business interfering in our family affairs especially in such an underhand and deceitful way. To behave in such a way to healthy people is bad, but for this combination of millionaire businessman and the biggest firm of solicitors in Belfast to impose their wills on an elderly and bereaved widow and her mentally handicapped son is just too shocking for words.

The 'purchaser' of "Tara House", G.P. Jemphrey, was a solicitor! What a coincidence! It seems that the legal profession were intent on keeping the 'gold strike' within the legal family. Two of Freddie's properties illegally disposed of without any reference to members of Freddie's family and the two 'purchasers' were solicitors!

Not only did Gilpin and solicitors Tughan & Co conspire to illegally supply solicitor Mr. G.P. Jemphrey with a first-refusal bargain of a luxury home by obtaining for him 14 Castlehill Road for £38,750, but others did well out of it too. In fact the only losers in all of this transaction were my mother and Freddie.

The first item on the above list - 14 Castlehill Road was not put on the market until 4 Norwood Gardens was purchased with a bridging loan obtained from the Ulster Bank, which is the first item on the above list at £24,893.68. Freddie had no idea what was going on in his name and his signature was either forged or he was very improperly manipulated by Gilpin and Tughan & Co.

The second item of £329.08 to Central Merchants who were suppliers of plumbing and bathroom items, well, I don't know what this firm supplied, but it wasn't obvious in 4 Norwood Gardens. This bath, for example, would have been a priority for replacement, but it wasn't replaced.
So why was this money added on to Freddie's account, and a Completion Statement at that, by Tughan & Co? Who received this money and what was it for?
The third item: "McCreas Ltd...£1,573.00." This gets even more interesting. McCreas Ltd. was a firm owned by Charles Gilpin and supplied furniture. If Charles Gilpin received this money, and as you can see, Tughan & Co have put in writing that he did by putting that amount on Freddie's account in Gilpin's name, Charles Gilpin must have delivered the furniture to the wrong address because it never arrived at 4 Norwood Gardens!

The fourth item: "Purchase of 4 Norwood Gardens...£2,142.15!" To whom did that massive amount of money go and for what?

The fifth item: "Tughan & Co...£1,192.01!" It really seems to have been "Think of a number time".

The fifth item: "Transfer to Purchase...£115.03". Who got this money out of Freddie's estate?

The last three items add up to £3,449.19. That was a lot of money in 1977. This was nothing short of a rip-off!