Couple 'convinced family and friends to quit their jobs after conning them into believing they had come into £200m inheritance'

A couple have been accused of leaving the lives of their family and friends in tatters after lying about a £200million inheritance and telling them they would get a slice.

Ashley and Stevie-Nia Coombs allegedly made promises about new jobs, homes and early retirement to loved-ones who claim they later discovered it was all made up.

Ashley's parents Marion and Simon say they were lied to and the couple, from Swansea, believe they will now have to sell their home to pay off their debts.

They quit their jobs at the DVLA after they were promised £5million and an eight-bed mansion in West Wales, including keys and security codes for their new home - but when they arrived at the son's solicitors to finalise the deal they were told the house didn't exist by mystified staff.

Mrs Coombs, 58, told The Sun: 'Everyone says we should have waited but Stevie was very believable. They're not gaining from all these lies so I don't know why they did it'.

Her husband, also 58, added: 'We've been saddled with everything, all these debts, bank loans and car loans to pay off. The only option we have is to sell our house'. 

Others claim they were also encouraged to leave their jobs, build up debt or promised cash including one friend told she could have £25,000 for IVF treatment because she was desperate to have a baby.

However police have informed their victims that the couple have not committed any crime as they did not benefit financially from the deceit.  

Ashley and Stevie-Nia have left Swansea after their spiralling lies were finally revealed.

A friend of Stevie-Nia, 27, told the newspaper that she was also convinced to leave her job and would eventually lose out on £15,000.

Amy Salter, 32, said she signed a bogus contract for the couple's new events firm only to later find out it was all a lie.

In one of their sickest lies, the couple promised their friend Michele Stephens £25,000 to pay for her fertility treatment, provoking Michele to label Stevie-Nia 'a c***'.

They also claimed they were bringing the date of their wedding in 2012 forward so Stevie-Nia's dying grandfather could come.

However another former friend revealed that the relative did not even attend the wedding and was not suffering from cancer as they had claimed. 

The couple were able to con friends and family after forging a fake will from her dead grandfather which claimed they were the beneficiaries of £200million.