More than two years after the rampage that claimed 22 lives, Gabriel Wortman's estate is embroiled in lawsuits and placed in public trustees' custody .
An inventory filed in December 2020 valued the estate at over his $2.1 million. This included his $120,000 that the state paid to purchase his 200 Portapique Beach Rd. This is where Wortman's cottage and other buildings are located and where the rampage began. A
state spokesperson said the purchase was made to ensure there would be no future development on the property.
Since that inventory, the shooter's Dartmouth property, his home and dentist's office, has been sold to his PA Developments, a Dartmouth-based company. I was.
The Public Trustee completed the sale in his March of last year. Property records show the sale price was just over $1.5 million.
In addition to property, property inventory includes more than $880,000 of his other financial assets, including bank accounts and credit cards .
Most of that money, $705,000, is cash RCMP recovered when they search Portapique properties. Buried inside and survived the fire that destroyed the building. The cash he turned over to the public trustee in June 2021.
The fact that Wortman used deceptive financial practices made it difficult to ascertain the exact financial status of the estate.
In his handwritten will, he named his longtime partner Lisa Banfield as his sole beneficiary and , named as executor of his estate. Since Banfield has renounced his role as executor, public trustees control the estate.
But she did not relinquish her right to her estate itself. She filed a civil lawsuit against the estate to secure some of her property.
But Banfield is not alone. Families of some of the murder victims have filed lawsuits against property .
After the action was instituted, it was subsequently amended to name Banfield, her brother and brother-in-law as defendants..The trio was added to the case after being charged with supplying ammunition to gunmen. Charges against all three were sent to remedial justice, andwere formally dismissed last month. It is said that it is still unresolved because of .
"Until the claim is resolved," part of the statement states, "no debt or payment relating to the property can proceed."
