Vodafone makes mother pick up £2,000 bill for multiple phones for son with learning difficulties

She had agreed to settle his monthly charges by direct debit. But no one told her he'd been sent multiple handsets

A Cheshire parent has had to pay out more than 2,000 after Vodafone gave eight expensive mobile handsets to her 21-year-old son in a case that will alarm parents who pay their grown-up children's mobile bills.

Claire Hardwick is paying her unemployed son Nick's monthly bill by direct debit because his severe learning difficulties mean he is unable to manage a bank account. But she has been left unable to afford this month's mortgage payment after it turned out Nick had persuaded Vodafone to send him a string of mobile phones worth thousands of pounds over just a few weeks.

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