Daughter stole life savings of dementia mum leaving nothing left to pay for funeral (UK)
Scheming Jennifer Bailey, 59, treated herself to lavish shopping sprees and expensive holidays – including a trip to Australia – while Mabel Shaw, 81, lay in a care home suffering with dementia.
Bailey was eventually exposed by her horrified brother.
Over three years, the daughter squandered the huge sum that had been set aside for her mother’s residential care. And on the day Mrs Shaw died, she cleared out her bank account of the remaining £22,000.
Bailey, a married mother-of-two, and brother Nigel Shaw, 53, had been given power of attorney over their mother’s estate, but agreed Bailey would handle day-to-day finances.
Suspicions were raised in 2009 after Keldgate Manor residential home in Hull contacted Mr Shaw saying the money had “run out”.
When he realised what had happened, he went to Humberside Police who launched a fraud investigation.
Welder Nigel, a married father-of-three, last night said: “I have not spoken to Jenny since 2009 after what she did and for not going to the funeral.
“If my dad was still alive, he would be mortified. He doted on Jenny, she was his little girl and could do nothing wrong in his eyes. It’s a surreal situation. I haven’t had a full night’s sleep since this happened. She didn’t need the money. She had a really good lifestyle. The only thing I can think is that she wanted to keep up with the Joneses. Mum gave us everything. What bothers me is what Jenny did not that I lost out.”
Bailey, a barmaid from Selby, North Yorkshire, will be sentenced next Friday after pleading guilty at Hull Crown Court last month to fraud.
Detective Constable Krista Wood said: “All Nigel wanted was the truth. He trusted Jennifer.”
Attribution:
Daughter stole life savings of dementia mum leaving nothing left to pay for funeral
A WOMAN stole £63,000 from her dying mother’s bank account, leaving nothing even to pay for her funeral.
Natalie Chalk
November 21, 2013
Express.co.uk
Bailey was eventually exposed by her horrified brother.
Over three years, the daughter squandered the huge sum that had been set aside for her mother’s residential care. And on the day Mrs Shaw died, she cleared out her bank account of the remaining £22,000.
Bailey, a married mother-of-two, and brother Nigel Shaw, 53, had been given power of attorney over their mother’s estate, but agreed Bailey would handle day-to-day finances.
Suspicions were raised in 2009 after Keldgate Manor residential home in Hull contacted Mr Shaw saying the money had “run out”.
When he realised what had happened, he went to Humberside Police who launched a fraud investigation.
Welder Nigel, a married father-of-three, last night said: “I have not spoken to Jenny since 2009 after what she did and for not going to the funeral.
“If my dad was still alive, he would be mortified. He doted on Jenny, she was his little girl and could do nothing wrong in his eyes. It’s a surreal situation. I haven’t had a full night’s sleep since this happened. She didn’t need the money. She had a really good lifestyle. The only thing I can think is that she wanted to keep up with the Joneses. Mum gave us everything. What bothers me is what Jenny did not that I lost out.”
Bailey, a barmaid from Selby, North Yorkshire, will be sentenced next Friday after pleading guilty at Hull Crown Court last month to fraud.
Detective Constable Krista Wood said: “All Nigel wanted was the truth. He trusted Jennifer.”
Attribution:
Daughter stole life savings of dementia mum leaving nothing left to pay for funeral
A WOMAN stole £63,000 from her dying mother’s bank account, leaving nothing even to pay for her funeral.
Natalie Chalk
November 21, 2013
Express.co.uk
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