Articles in Financial Abuse
A Judge has branded a Lincolnshire couple “mean” and “nasty” after they raided the bank account of the woman’s 75-year-old mother while she was in hospital. Carol Brown was given a six-month supervision order and her boyfriend Peter Britteon was given a one-year supervision order and a three-month...
Urgent action must be taken to stop vulnerable people in Northamptonshire being ripped off by greedy care home workers, a Judge has said. Judge Richard Bray made the comments at the sentencing of a former care home manager who stole £11,000 from one patient over four years. Judge Bray said: “This...
A crooked care home accountant has been jailed for 32 months for stealing more than £300,000. Jenny Glanister, 51, stole £338,805 from disabled people and the care homes where she worked to fund a luxury lifestyle of champagne, fur coats and diamond jewellery. She admitted eight counts of theft,...
A pensioner was told that her daughter would commit suicide unless she paid a psychic thousands of dollars, police in the US have claimed. Tiffany Smith, of Hingham, Massachusetts, allegedly tricked the 69-year-old victim into handing over $7000 and an antique ring, telling her that something bad...
Older people are being left unable to afford food and fuel because they have been cheated out of their savings by people they know, reveals a campaign by Warwickshire County Council and Age UK Warwickshire. ...
People can now find out the previously witheld names of council employees and care organisations not published in the Klonowski report on Wirral social services. Wirral Council published the ‘key’ after council leader Cllr Jeff Green moved to have the information placed in the public domain. The...
An elderly woman was left facing eviction when her son transferred her home into his name to fraudulently obtain a loan. Nottingham Crown Court jailed unemployed William Tucker for 31 months after he used his mother’s £150,000 house as an asset to get a £83,000 loan. When he failed to make the...
A nurse has been jailed for 18 months after stealing thousands of pounds from her frail, elderly mother. Elizabeth Anne Hill, a 55-year-old mother of two, was granted power of attorney in 2003 after her mother started showing signs of dementia. She and her husband Michael Raymond Hill, 52,...
Elderly people in Essex have been warned to be on their guard if unfamiliar visitors come calling following four incidents of thieves posing as police officers.Two men dressed as constables forced their way into the home of an elderly woman in Chigwell last week, stealing her Rolex watch. The...
A new study could help professionals who work with elderly people spot if they are being financially abused.Researchers looked at how professionals make decisions about possible financial abuse – what information they use, how they weigh it up, and whether they decide to act or not. Financial...
