Imagine the shock to a family when parents are arrested for faking a death and cashing in on an insurance claim — and the first they hear about it is in the media.

But this is exactly how a son, daughter, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren learnt that their relatives — known along the Garden Route as Chris and Abigail Boshoff — were accused of the alleged scheme to defraud Old Mutual out of R1.7m by faking the man’s death in 1999.  ..