The knock on the door came at 6.30am one November morning as Hannah David was preparing to leave her £1.4 million family home in Hertfordshire for a work event in London.
Opening it, she expected to see the postman — not three police officers bearing a search warrant, who asked if her husband Freddy was at home. Frightened and confused, she thought there must be some terrible mistake.
She and her husband were high-profile, respected members of the local community. Law graduate Hannah had, until 2013, served as a Conservative councillor for nine years.
The mother of three and planning expert had contested two general elections as the Tory candidate in Harrow West, in 2015 and 2017.
She was a national director of the Conservative Policy Forum, often photographed with prime ministers.
Her husband Freddy, an economics graduate, was a highly regarded, regulated financial adviser.
He was the managing director of a successful, long-established wealth management company and was also known for his charitable activities.
‘I was so shocked. The whole thing was just terrifying, like something you see in a film,’ says Hannah, 51, of the morning in 2017 when her world imploded.
‘I asked the police officers: ‘What’s this all about?’ but they just handed me the warrant, which mentioned financial matters I knew nothing about and didn’t understand.’
Hannah David, a former Tory parliamentary candidate and ex-national director of the Conservative Police forum, is…
