Callous gang swindled dying pensioner out of over £250k
by Liz Keen, WalesOnline
THE family of a dying pensioner swindled out of her life savings by ruthless conmen has warned: “These men could be knocking on your mother’s door next”.
Anne Cornock, 75, a former bank employee, was systematically cheated out of more than £250,000 after she allowed cold-callers to work on her driveway.
Cardiff estate agent Sean White was jailed today for two years for his part in what a judge at Cardiff Crown Court called a “wicked enterprise”.
Ambitious White – who is still only 25 and set up his business Masons Homes in 2006 – admitted allowing his bank account to be used to launder £115,000 of the cash widowed Mrs Cornock and her late husband had worked for all their lives.
Those behind the scam were a gang of men he said he knew only by their nicknames, who in 2008 had re-paved a driveway at Mrs Cornock’s Sully home.
Over the next year, and under constant pressure from the men, Mrs Cornock handed over cash, cheques and money transfers totalling £272,310.
Last September, from her hospital bed, where she lay with terminal cancer, she told police: “I had the drive done by them but then they came back.”
The men – still being sought by police – at first told her she had overpaid them but in the months which followed demanded more and more payments in order, they said, to get their computer straight so that they could reimburse her.
The extent to which she had been cheated became clear when her son, David, a television presenter, visited from his home in London and noticed a document relating to an overdraft.
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SOURCE: WALESONLINE
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