Couple 'grooming' lonely elderly people.

These warden controlled estates are owned and run by companies. Usually there is a fee to pay upon purchase and sale and maintenance costs.
I don't think that the properties can be rented out, they have to be owner occupied.
Rules are quite strict as far as I know.

The company must be aware or, if not, should be informed of any suspicions and could make initial investigations.
They would not want their reputation tarnished by a possible coercion scandal.

Two questions........,why are they no longer wardens? Are their motives really so innocent in befriending these elderly people?

In my opinion there is a suspicion of financial abuse and this should be reported to Social Services and the Police on 101. If the couple are genuine and have nothing to hide and no ulterior motive, all well and good. Just seems rather suspicious to me that these elderly individuals have changed their wills to benefit this couple. Coercion springs to mind.

It's important to remember that everyone has the right to make their own decisions, providing they are of sound enough mind.
Being elderly isn't necessarily a reason not to be "allowed" to make a decision (even a bad one)

This really triggered me as a similar thing happened in my mother's family years ago.

My mum was close to her Auntie M and Uncle J especially after her own mother died when my mum was 40. Auntie M was her dad's sister and they had no children. My mum was like a daughter to them and used to see them practically every day.

When they reached their 80's, a long lost cousin suddenly appeared. He was an actual cousin but not one that I ever remember being around.

The cousin and his wife decided that my Auntie and Uncle needed help. They didn't. They both had all of their wits about them but were very quiet, unassuming people. The cousin persuaded my A & U to let them take charge of their finances. They eventually persuaded them to go into a home and then persuaded them to let the cousin's son 'buy' their house at a very cheap price.

My mother was very non-confrontational and didn't stand up to them. She wasn't interested in inheriting from her A & U. The only thing she would have liked was a couple of ornaments for sentimental reasons. Even these disappeared when my A & U went into the home.

This was in the early 1980's. No-one could actually believe it was happening and felt powerless to prevent it given the tenacity and boldness of the cousin

That is going to be difficult to prove that anything is amiss, two people are befriending and helping out the elderly and as a reward, the elderly with sound minds are repaying them by leaving property in their wills. I assume either the elderly have no other family or the families do not contest the wills.

Unless someone’s been officially deemed to have dementia, or otherwise of ‘unsound mind’, unfortunately the law as it stands allows them to leave their assets to whoever they choose, and likewise to throw money away before they die, however they choose.

Hence a neighbour of ours losing over £100k to a ‘lottery’ scam.

And someone I used to know, whose father with undiagnosed dementia, was ‘encouraged’ by his live-in so-called carer, to estrange himself from his formerly very close family. The woman later took him abroad, married him, and got him to re-write his will entirely in her favour. And it was a substantial estate.
The family challenged it in court, but the woman was so clever and plausible that they lost.

I think they used to be wardens, but aren't now, though.

There must be standards which should be upheld if someone is in a position of trust like this.

However, you'd have to be sure of the facts.

There is an elder abuse helpline you can phone.
That might be your best bet - they will know how the law stands.

I am appalled by this behaviour. Preying on vulnerable elderly people in this way is probably more common than we think.
Perhaps not to that extent but a couple befriended my in laws after hearing MIL bragging about how many cruises they’d been on etc. They thought they were financially better off than they actually were. Didn’t stop them acquiring a lot of MIL’s jewellery and a few cash handouts before the penny dropped. My husbands Gran was also a soft touch for a sob story.

Maybe have a quiet word with whoever is in charge of the wardens? It’s a tough call.

I suppose you could say they are providing a much needed service, if they are giving the elderly a better quality of life, cooking for them, and spending time with them.
Unless it could be proven that they have coerced the person, then I doubt it is illegal or necessarily even damaging.

It is a tricky one.
Unless the elderly people are not of sound mind I doubt there is anything that can be done.

I've seen more than one case of this, in one case the person was about the same age but died before the widow he targeted.

Oh that's a tricky one.
Payment for services rendered, I suppose, on one hand?