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August 10, 2009

Woman Jailed for Fleecing Disabled Pensioner (UK)

Aug 8 2009

POSING proudly with Irene Simons at her daughter’s wedding, Helen Bailey looks every bit the loyal family friend.

The 36-year-old had been warmly welcomed into the heart of the Simons family after she had taken on full-time caring duties for the disabled Birmingham mum.

But behind the smiles on this wedding snap – taken during the 2005 wedding of Irene’s daughter, also called Irene – scheming Bailey was secretly fleecing the 62-year-old.

The mum-of-two, from Rathbone Road, Smethwick, raked in a whopping £36,000 over three years.

She fraudulently claimed a carers’ wage for her husband Paul, even though he had never worked for Irene.

And her greed did not stop there.

Bailey went on to secretly re-mortgage Irene’s home, in Shaftsmoor Lane, Acocks Green, saddling her victim with almost £28,000 worth of debt.

She was jailed for 18 months at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday for what the judge described as a “serious breach of trust”.

She pleaded guilty to four counts of false accounting, obtaining a money transfer by deception and four counts of acquiring, using and possessing criminal property.

Her husband Paul, 38, avoided immediate jail for going along with the three-year fraud.


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Another sickening case of exploitation, intimation and fraud perpetrated by a carer. People like this woman in the above article; gives other dedicated carers a bad wrap.

Just wondering if the 18-month jail sentence is adequate for such a heinous crime.
................... AC

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