Legacy: a perfect stranger left us 230,000 euros and our life turned into a nightmare

Alex and Tom Renny didn't come back. When they opened the letter, they discovered that they were inheriting almost 234,000 euros, bequeathed by Maureen Renny, a great-grandmother by alliance that they knew only by name, and that Alex had never even met. Tom, 31, vaguely knew that she was her grandmother-in-law, but didn't know anything about her fortune. Maureen, former director of Barn School, later renamed Hill House in Much Hadham, Hertfordsh…