A Wellington widow wants a bank which could afford to give its chief executive a £16 million pension package to write off a £15,000 loan she took on just months before her chronically sick husband died.

The loan taken out by pensioner Maureen Hutchings to pay credit card debts was agreed by the Wellington branch of NatWest, owned by RBS, and headed by 'Fred the Shred', Sir Fred Goodwin, in April, 2004, using disability benefit paid to Mrs Hutchings' chronically-ill husband John as her income.

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