{"id":28280,"date":"2019-02-01T11:15:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T11:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=28280"},"modified":"2019-02-01T11:15:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T11:15:29","slug":"women-stole-thousands-from-elderly-step-dad-who-had-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/01\/women-stole-thousands-from-elderly-step-dad-who-had-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Women stole thousands from elderly step dad who had dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #141414;\">A woman stole thousands of pounds from her vulnerable stepfather who had dementia and was living in a care home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #141414;\">Karen Feehan, 50, of Avonside Drive, Evington withdrew \u00a36,000 from her stepfather&#8217;s bank account over the course of six months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #141414;\"> <iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5293\/leicestermercury.co.uk\/news\/local-news_2\" style=\"outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: bottom; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5293\/leicestermercury.co.uk\/news\/local-news_2\" width=\"8px\" height=\"8px\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-google-container-id=\"3\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-integralas-id-fd5a0113-f1c9-461c-74cb-2d2e011d5e49=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe>She personally took him from the care home to a cash machine and got him to withdraw the money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; 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vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #141414;\">&#8220;This was a breach of trust and responsibility, and she had effectively taken over his finances for a time and made the withdrawals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #141414;\">&#8220;He was vulnerable and she was aware of his confusion.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #141414;\">Feehan, who cannot work due to a medical condition, used the money to fund trips to the cinema and the theatre in the evenings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif;\">She pleaded guilty to one count of theft on the first day of her trial at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/all-about\/courts\"><b><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Leicester Crown Court.<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #141414;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #141414;\">Timothy Banks, defending, said: &#8220;This trial has had a big impact on her ailments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #141414;\">&#8220;She receives benefits and does not work but pools her income with her family.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #141414;\">Since the theft took place, Feehan&#8217;s stepfather has died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #141414;\">Judge Martin Hurst, presiding, said: &#8220;This case has a long history and now I understand that the complainant in this case is now deceased.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #141414;\">&#8220;He probably looked upon you as a loving stepdaughter. This was a theft and a breach of trust by you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #141414;\">&#8220;This is not a large sum of money in the grand scheme of things, but it was a lot of money for you and a lot of money for your stepfather.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #141414;\">&#8220;This was a particularly unpleasant offence and you shouldn&#8217;t have done it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #141414;\">Feehan received a nine-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #141414;\">Upon her arrest, she had \u00a3300 seized by police, which she was ordered to pay as part of costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #141414;\">She was also ordered to pay an additional \u00a3200 in costs as well as a victim surcharge.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman stole thousands of pounds from her vulnerable stepfather who had dementia and was living in a care home. Karen Feehan, 50, of Avonside Drive, Evington withdrew \u00a36,000 from her stepfather&#8217;s bank account over the course of six months. She personally took him from the care home to a cash machine and got him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}