An energy company has spent the past 10 years chasing a single mother-of-two for debt that belongs to the previous owners of her house.

Mahala Simmons, 48, a pharmacy worker from Great Bentley, a small village near Colchester in northeast Essex, bought her house in October 2015.

But the house-warming gift she didn’t expect was a bill for around £300 from the electricity and gas supplier Scottish Power – which she said belongs to the previous owners of the property.

Over the past decade, Scottish Power has chased Ms Simmons for the debt.

The last letter she received from the energy company demanded payment of £1,728.91.

This is despite Ms Simmons not being a Scottish Power customer and her having been reassured several times since she moved in with her sons, aged 21 and 25, that the ac

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