"She happened to be on the promenade and crying about her relationship, I believe," says Ian's daughter Helen, who doesn't think that meeting was a coincidence.
What happened next set in motion a chain of events that would lead to allegations of financial grooming, neglect and an NHS nurse being struck off.
Ian Percival was a wealthy businessman in his 70s, who worked as an investor in property and an insurance broker. Part of his business involved renting homes to NHS staff locally.
"Dad was a workaholic, he loved it," his son, Richard, says fondly.
Ian and his wife, Margaret, who were married for more than 50 years, were well-known and well-liked figures in the Swansea area.
Anita was a seemingly trustworthy nurse - who, just three days after meeting Ian, moved into one of his properties to help look after Margaret, who had mobility problems. It was a private arrangement, a deal struck personally, not through the NHS.
"I was doubtful about her from day one," says Richard.
This is the first time Ian's children have spoken publicly about what happened, from their home in Brisbane, Australia.
'She took over their lives'
As time went on, they became increasingly concerned about how involved Anita was becoming with their parents. When Ian was diagnosed with cancer, she began also caring for him.
"She took over our parents' lives. She was constantly with them," Richard recalls. Increasingly, he felt she was coming between their parents and isolating them from their family.
"Mum was getting excluded," says Richard. "I felt that she [Anita] had full control, which I have never witnessed before. I just don't understand how, after mum and dad being together for 52 years, things she did changed everything."
Helen says Anita's professional credentials initially reassured her. "I trusted her because she was a nurse at a local hospital."
But in the months before Ian's death in December 2016, she could tell things had drastically changed. Anita was refusing to take care of their mother, Helen claims. Instead, she focused all her attention on Ian.
It wasn't until their father died, that Helen and Richard became aware of the extent of Anita's involvement with Ian. They believe she'd struck up an inappropriate personal relationship, manipulating him for financial gain.
As they investigated, they moved Margaret to live with them in Australia, where she later died in 2018.
"On dad's computer, we managed to find some evidence. We thought, this is crazy. I don't understand... so it made us dig deeper," says Richard.
Cash, a car and property
Ian had given her nearly £15,000 in cash and shares, a car and left her a property worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
"I felt sick because I knew this was her doing," recalls Helen. "The first thing that came to my mind was that he was financially groomed... she had one motive - to get money."
"Only when the will was read did I realise how skewed it was."
Helen believes the will had "huge input" from Anita.
Anita George said she was simply receiving gifts from a friend - but this is not just a story about money and material goods. On Ian's medical records she had listed herself as his next of kin, even as his daughter and adoptive daughter. All this without his wife or children's knowledge.
She was managing his hospital appointments, taking his bloods at home, accessing medical equipment. How did Helen feel about a woman she barely knew passing herself off as her father's daughter?
"It's devastating. It should never have happened. That's a massive failing by the NHS."
It has taken eight years for the family of Ian Percival to achieve any form of justice.
Struck off as a nurse
In December 2024, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) carried out a hearing into the allegations - and found that Anita George had breached professional standards and abused the position of trust as a registered nurse to gain inheritance from a patient.
It ruled that her actions were motivated by the pursuit of financial gain, and it struck her off from the nursing register - its toughest sanction. The NMC report outlines how Ian and Margaret's isolation, poor health and geographical separation from their children made them particularly vulnerable.
Anita George declined our request for an interview.
During the hearing her legal team argued this all happened outside of her formal employment as a nurse. The situation was unlikely to happen again as her personal life has changed and she's now married, they added.
Swansea Bay University Health Board, which runs the hospital, is now carrying out a review into any possible failures:
"In light of the findings of the NMC's hearing we are appalled and want to state clearly to the family that we're very sorry about what happened. We will be reviewing this case to see if there are any learnings that need to be taken into account. It is important, however, to clarify that the inappropriate financial relationships did not relate to care provided within an NHS context."
South Wales Police carried out an investigation at the time but no charges were brought.
It says it will reopen the case if new lines of inquiry are found.
Financial exploitation of the elderly
The case of Anita George and Ian Percival highlights the growing issue of financial exploitation of the elderly. The Hourglass charity, which works exclusively in this field, says the problem is now at "epidemic" levels.
The number of calls it has received since 2017 has risen by 182% from around 4,500 to 12,700.
In just 14% of economic abuse cases in the last three years, £53m has been reported stolen from the elderly.
It says awareness among the public of what constitutes economic abuse is "shockingly low" - with a poll last year finding more than 26% of people did not believe forcing an older relative to change their will was an act of abuse.
The charity says abuse of the elderly comes in many forms including financial, psychological and physical.
"There are lots of cases we've dealt with where the enormity of the abuse is only obvious once the person has passed away," says Richard Robinson, the charity's chief executive.
"But there is another issue here; lots of older people don't want to criminalise their family or their carers because if they [do so] they'll be left to fend for themselves or they'll be put into a home."
While Ian's children hope police will reopen the case, they also want tougher rules on how carers become involved with patients. Currently, nurses must adhere to the NMC's professional standards known as the Code, which include acting with "honesty and integrity" in any financial dealings.
"We want legislation put in place so that carers can't be caring without proper background checks, the next of kin cannot just be somebody they've known for two years."
'Someone finally listened'
Richard added that they were "relieved" Anita George was struck off following the damning report by the NMC.
"Somebody listened to us and took our evidence onboard. You can't have someone doing what she did - using her position as a nurse...to gain their trust."
While the pair cherish their memories of their father what happened with Anita George has tarnished the end of his life, for them.
Neither of his parents deserved to suffer this type of abuse, says Richard.
"Dad was a genuine hard-working guy who loved his family. It's just horrible," he says, grimly.
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She looks around with confusion as they let her know the clinic is closed.
She tells us it has only been two months since she came here to receive her usual care.
Now, she must scramble to find another safe place for her sexual health screenings and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) - her regular defence against rampant HIV.
On the day he was sworn in as US president for a second time, Donald Trump signed an executive order freezing foreign aid for a 90-day period.
That is being challenged by federal employee unions in court over what it says are "unconstitutional and illegal actions" that have created a "global humanitarian crisis".
However, the order is already having an immediate impact on South Africa's most vulnerable.
Her eyes tear up as she processes the news. Like many sex workers in town, free sexual health clinics are her lifeline.
A HIV-positive sex worker shared her patient transfer letter from the same closed clinic with Sky News and told us with panic that she is still waiting to be registered at an alternative facility.
South Africa is home to one of the world's worst HIV/AIDS epidemics. At least 8.5 million people here are living with HIV - a quarter of all cases worldwide.
Widespread, free access to antiretroviral treatment in southern Africa was propelled by the introduction of George W. Bush's US President Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in 2003.
PEPFAR is considered one of the most successful foreign aid programmes in history, and South Africa is the largest recipient of its funds.
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The programme has now been halted by President Trump's foreign aid funding freeze - plunging those who survived South Africa's HIV epidemic and AIDS denialism in the early 2000s back to a time of scarcity and fear.
"That time, there was no medication. The government would tell us to take beetroot and garlic. It was very difficult for the government to give us treatment but we fought very hard to win this battle. Now, the challenge is that we are going back to the struggle," says Nelly Zulu, an activist and mother living with HIV in Soweto.
Nelly says access to free treatment has saved her and her 21-year-old son, who tested positive for HIV at four years old.
"It helped me so much because if I didn't get the treatment, I don't think I would be alive - even my son.
"My concern is for pregnant women. I don't want them to go through what I went through - the life I was facing before. I'm scared we will go back to that crisis."
South African civil society organisations have written a joint open letter calling for their government to provide a coordinated response to address the healthcare emergency created by the US foreign aid freeze.
The letter states that close to a million patients living with HIV have been directly impacted by stop-work orders and that a recent waiver by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio continuing life-saving assistance explicitly excludes "activities that involve abortions, family planning, gender or diversity, equality and inclusion ideology programmes, transgender surgeries or other non-life saving assistance".
The shuttered clinic we saw in Johannesburg's central business district (CBD) comes under these categories - built by Witwatersrand University to research reproductive health and cater to vulnerable and marginalised communities.
An activist and healthcare worker at a transgender clinic tells us everyone she knows is utterly afraid.
"Corner to corner, you hear people talking about this. There are people living with chronic diseases who don't have faith anymore because they don't know where they are ending up," says Ambrose, a healthcare worker and activist.
"People keep asking corner to corner - 'why don't you go here, why don't you go there?' People are crying - they want to be assisted."
South Africa's ministry of health insists that only 17% of all HIV/AIDs funding comes from PEPFAR but that statistic is offset by the palpable disruption.
On Monday, minister of health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi met to discuss bilateral health cooperation and new US policy for assistance with US charge d'affaires for South Africa, Dana Brown.
A statement following the meeting says: "Communication channels are open between the Ministry and the Embassy, and we continue to discuss our life-saving health partnership moving forward.
"Until details are available the minister called on all persons on antiretrovirals (ARVs) to under no circumstances stop this life-saving treatment."
A demand much harder to execute than declare.
"There is already a shortage of the medication - even if you ask for three months' treatment, they will give you one or two months worth then you have to go back," says Nelly.
"Now, it is worse because you can see the funding has been cut off."
The Bering Air flight left Unalakleet at 2.38pm on Thursday but contact was lost less than an hour later, the firm's operations director David Olson said.
Officials are trying to work out its last-known position but the coastguard said the Cessna Grand Caravan was 12 miles offshore as it flew across Norton Sound.
Tracking site Flightradar24 reported it at 5,300ft before contact was lost.
It was travelling from Unalakleet, a community of about 690 people in western Alaska, to Nome, a gold rush town just south of the Arctic Circle.
The flight time is normally just under an hour.
In a post on Facebook, Nome's fire department said: "We are currently doing an active ground search from Nome and from White Mountain."
It added: "We ask the public to please think of those who may be missing at this time, but due to weather and safety concerns please do not form individual search parties."
Weather in Unalakleet at take-off time was -8.3C (17F) with fog and light snow, according to the US National Weather Service.
Bering Air serves 32 villages in western Alaska and air travel is often the only option of travelling long distances in rural parts of the US state, especially in winter.
"Staff at Bering Air is working hard to gather details, get emergency assistance, search and rescue going," said Mr Olson.
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It comes soon after two major air accidents in the US in recent weeks.
Sixty-seven people were killed when a jet and helicopter collided in Washington DC and seven died when a medical plane crashed in Philadelphia.
D'Acampo actions were described as being "unacceptable", "distressing" and "horrendous", according to an ITV News investigation.
Anonymous women who spoke to the news broadcaster also accused D'Acampo of aggressive behaviour and making highly sexualised remarks.
In a statement to ITV News, D'Acampo has said he "firmly" denies the allegations and "would not do anything that I thought would upset or distress anyone".
He adds: "I am a father, husband... the suggestion that I have acted in an improper way against is deeply upsetting."
Sky News has contacted D'Acampo for comment.
ITV also reported that bosses at Objective Media Group, the production company behind Gordon, Gino And Fred's Roadtrip in 2018, appear to have been aware of concerns about D'Acampo's behaviour.
Objective Media Group said: "We have robust protocols and procedures in place for all cast and crew, including on-screen talent, that we review regularly whilst also ensuring that we take into account developments regarding industry wide 'Duty of Care' guidelines."
The production company continued: "Across all productions we encourage people to raise any concerns at the earliest opportunity... If there are incidents or complaints reported, we implement our Escalation Procedure and ensure that a full and thorough process is followed in close collaboration with the broadcaster."
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Other production companies that have worked with D'Acampo have also issued statements following the allegations.
Studio Ramsay said: "Whilst we do not disclose or discuss personnel matters publicly, Studio Ramsay is committed, in conjunction with our broadcast partners, to a safe and professional work environment. We take all allegations of inappropriate behaviour and workplace misconduct seriously, promptly investigate, and take appropriate remedial action when warranted."
MultiStory Media said: "It would be inappropriate to go into the detail of individual concerns but we give our assurance that we are reviewing the concerns which have been raised, what was known at the time and what action was taken. We will also look at any new concerns that have come to light."
From Friday, the country is heading into a colder and drier spell of weather.
High pressure over Scandinavia will strengthen and lead to a blocked weather pattern with an easterly flow developing across the UK.
A blocked weather pattern is where a weather system remains almost stationary for a relatively prolonged period of time.
Get the weather forecast where you are
In winter, when air comes from the east, it typically brings colder and drier conditions, with the risk of some snow.
The term Beast from the East is used when we get exceptionally cold and snowy weather from an easterly direction, like in 2018, but that is unlikely in this set-up.
Firstly, the air over the Baltic States and Russia is not as cold as it would typically be at this time of the year.
Temperatures there are about 5C-10C above average.
Secondly, the airmass dips south before heading to the UK so there is not a direct easterly flow.
'Notable wind chill for many'
So extreme cold is currently unlikely, but daytime temperatures will fall to below average this weekend, lasting through much of next week.
There will also be a notable wind chill in the south and east at times, making it feel freezing.
By night, temperatures will be more typical for February, with a frost forming where skies remain clear.
Northwest Scotland will probably see the lowest overnight temperatures, as low as -7C in rural parts, but it doesn't look as cold as last month.
Cold weather alerts issued
In Altnaharra, northern Scotland, -18.9C (-2F) was recorded on 11 January, the coldest January night in 15 years.
The UK Health Security Agency has also issued a number of yellow cold health alerts covering areas across England including the North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, and the South East from 9am on Friday until 9am on Tuesday.
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Snow is forecast for some
With the arrival of colder air, some will get excited about the chance of snow.
At the moment, no significant snow is expected, but parts of the South and East may well see a covering of snow at times, especially on Saturday and Monday.
How long the cold, easterly flow will last is uncertain, but any breakdown to milder, wetter weather would bring a greater chance of heavy snow.
Usually, the UK's most significant snow events happen when warm, moist air moves in and meets cold air sitting across the country.