Oct 20 2008
WalesOnline
A FORMER councillor defrauded his 82-year-old mother and stole from his own son in a £275,000 campaign of dishonesty and deceit.
Philip Charles Brown, 55, who once served on Mid Glamorgan County Council following a period with Cynon Valley Borough Council, admitted a grave breach of trust towards people his lawyer described as his ‘nearest and dearest’.
He was yesterday jailed for three-and-a-half years.
Cardiff Crown Court heard how:
He emptied his son’s bank account of £20,000 behind his back, causing his house to be repossessed.- Left his pensioner mother facing demands for £68,000 for a loan he took out in her name
- Saw his wife face eviction from the family home after he forged her signature on a £168,000 mortgage
- And borrowed more cash in the name of his brother-in-law, a man who had helped him out when he was first in financial trouble
Brown intercepted letters and bank statements to the family which would have rung alarm bells before eventually fleeing South Wales for a London hotel leaving what a judge said was a trail of misery and uncertainty in his wake.
AbridgedSOURCE: Wales Online
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