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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