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    This Woman Took Her Late Husband's Ashes To A T-Mobile Shop Because They Kept Sending Threatening Bill Demands

    Maria Raybould says she visited the shop twice before to tell them her husband had died.

    This is Maria Raybould from North Cardiff. Her husband David died of cancer aged 57 in August.

    She told WalesOnline:

    David died on the Friday and the day after my son Craig went in to sort out the phone bill at their Caerphilly branch so it would be one less thing for us to worry about.

    They told him he would have to bring in David's death certificate. He went back with the death certificate and they told him they would send a copy of it to head office...

    I've been up to the shop with the death certificate, with a letter from the crematorium, the funeral bills – even his ashes. I took in everything I could.

    However, the bills kept coming.

    She told the site:

    It's gone downhill since then. I've had texts since then asking if David wanted to pay an extra £2.50 for broadband and letters saying that bailiffs would be coming...My son spoke with T-Mobile again and was assured it was sent in error and that it wasn't going to happen again.

    She suffers from anxiety and said that at one point the stress caused her to have a panic attack outside the shop.

    However, even despite this drastic course of action, she apparently received yet another letter last week – according to MailOnline: "It asked for a payment that was overdue and said the account would be passed to a debt collection agency."

    The website reports that a spokesman for T-Mobile apologised yesterday, citing a delay to the automated process that cancels the balance.