JAILED: Care co-ordinator stole £10,500 from stroke victim
A care co-ordinator who stole almost £10,500 worth of fees paid to her for a stroke victim to be looked after has been jailed for 10 months.
Beverley Lewis should have passed on the monthly payments to her employer, which has offices in Willenhall, but kept it all for herself.
She made the arrangement with the man’s sister who held power of attorney over his finances and had no idea the 59-year-old defendant was double crossing her, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard.
When the care company sent correspondence to the elderly woman warning her brother owed thousands of pounds in unpaid care bills scheming Lewis forged a letter on the company’s paper, which claimed there had been an administrative mistake and he owed nothing, revealed Mr Simon Phillips, prosecuting.
The scam continued for 15 months during which senior officials from the company had difficulty in reaching the man’s sister because contact details provided by the defendant were wrong or misleading.
