A family of six who have 72 hours to get out of their caravan home at a Moray holiday park vowed last night they will not be moved.
Site owners have warned retired prison officer Robert Williamson and his family they will face legal action if they are not gone by Friday.
Last night, Mr Williamson said the caravan belonged to him and insisted he would not be leaving until anyone could prove otherwise.
The family is living at the Silver Sands Holiday complex in Lossiemouth, which has been at the centre of a major fraud investigation.
Police visited the site and it emerged that some caravans appeared to have been sold to multiple owners.
Residents claimed they had received handwritten receipts and had handed over thousands of pounds, only to discover later they were not the only owner.
Three people appeared in private at Elgin Sheriff Court on Monday in connection with allegations of fraud and embezzlement.
Mr Williamson said someone else was claiming ownership of the caravan he and his family live in.
He claimed he paid £7,000 for it in June.
The Silver Sands site is owned by Leicester-based firm Green Parcs
A letter to Mr Williamson from the company’s directors, dated February 26, said the family did not have “rightful possession or ownership of caravan D8”.
It added that failure to vacate the caravan would result in legal action and warned that steps would be taken to make it unusable.
The letter said: “This will involve disconnection of all services on the pitch and exclusion from the park and caravan.”
Mr Williamson, 61, has been living in the caravan with his wife Linda, 59, their daughter Sarah, 36, and her children Nicholas, 10, Alex, 4, and Amy, 3, since last June.
He said: “The directors are saying I cannot prove I own the caravan and until a court case is over, no I can’t. But they cannot prove that I do not own the caravan. Until someone can prove otherwise it is my caravan and I will be standing my ground.”
Mr Williamson said he bought the caravan as a temporary home.
He and his wife sold their Dumfries home and bought a villa in Menorca when he retired from the Scottish Prison Service. The couple wanted to be close to their daughter, who was living in Spain.
The fall in the pound and his wife’s health problems forced the couple to return to Scotland two years ago.
They bought the caravan to stay in until they sold their property in Spain, but a buyer has not yet been found.
Their daughter returned from Spain with the children to staying with them. She is on Moray Council’s housing waiting list.
Mr Williamson, a part-time caretaker at West End Primary School in Elgin, said the situation could force him to go back into full-time work.
He said: “Lots of people are asking us what they can do to help. The only thing that can help is an empty house or a very, very cheap solicitor.
“Last time I went to a solicitor over this it was £300 for one appointment. It is not long before you have spent more than the caravan is worth.”
His wife Linda, 59, who broke her leg five weeks ago when she tripped on her handbag and fell out of a car, is unable to walk and has to lie on a small couch in the caravan, waiting for an operation.
She added: “It is such a worry now about what is going to happen on Friday.”
Green Parcs director, Deepak Johar, confirmed last night that legal action would be taken if the family continued to live there after Friday.
He added: “We are not going to march anybody off the park. We do not have the legal power to do that. But what we have told them is that if they do not move off we would take legal action.”
Neale Rothera, 35, of 5 Orchard Way, Wymeswold, Leicester, Shona Walters, 40, of 18 Fairfield Avenue, Elgin, and Gholamresa Motakellemi, 41, of 11 Kilbirn Eld, Oakham, Leicester, all appeared at Elgin Sheriff Court in connection with allegations of fraud and embezzlement. They made no plea and were released on bail.