DavidWOwen commented Home help took over £14k from 93-year-old victim to fund...

A home help who took over £14,000 from an elderly woman to fund her gambling addiction has been given a suspended sentence.Gail Barrs (65), of Beal Street, Highfields, Leicester, siphoned off a total of £14,310 from the account of her 93-year-old victim, who she was being paid to care for, between September 2014 and September 2015.After pleading guilty to fraud at an earlier hearing, she was sentenced to a 12-month jail term, suspended for two years, at Leicester Crown Court...