article_snippet.sent: When a $17million ransom demand arrived, a $17million ransom demand skinflint grandfather refused to help.
article_snippet.sent: his skinflint grandfather put a payphone in the hall of his skinflint grandfather Surrey mansion, failed disastrously in his skinflint grandfather quest to prevent his skinflint grandfather huge fortune spoiling his skinflint grandfather heirs .
article_snippet.sent: In 1981, his skinflint grandfather suffered catastrophic liver failure and a severe stroke, emerging from six weeks in a coma virtually blind and paralysed from the neck down.
article_snippet.sent: his skinflint grandfather could communicate by little more than a high-pitched scream.
article_snippet.sent: his skinflint grandfather died aged 54 in 2011.