Published date: 29 January 2016 |
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A 45-year-old man who filched nearly £18,000 from his 81-year-old father had left him heartbroken by the betrayal, a judge remarked.
Allan Warren of Seabank Road, Rhyl, had set up an online facility to switch cash between accounts for his own benefit, and he pleaded guilty to six fraud charges at Caernarfon crown court.
Judge Geraint Walters asked Warren whether he had sat down for a moment to consider how his father, who had recently lost his wife, must have felt when he discovered the betrayal. The father's bank had recompensed him for most of the loss.
Richard Edwards, prosecuting, said some of the cash had been spent on taxis, jewellery, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and clothes and it happened after Warren had moved into his father's home at Abergele following the death of the defendant's mother.
Mr Edwards said his father had felt "disgusted and heartbroken" by the behaviour. Warren had 34 previous convictions, mainly for assault, public order and motoring offenders. He was on a community order for making malicious phone calls to a builder who had worked on his father's house.
Simon Killeen, defending, said a suspended sentence and a lengthy curfew might help Warren, who was now engaging with the probation service, to turn his life around.
Judge Walters, jailing him for 14 months on Friday, said: "For reasons I can't begin to understand you began using your father's accounts to obtain money. Not content with that you also set up an online facility so you could better manage moving money around his accounts and you made applications in his name for more bank accounts or credit. What you were doing was taking the money out and using it."
The judge added: "And the target of all this was your dad. A man with whom you were living rent-free."
see-http://www.rhyljournal.co.uk/news/158013/rhyl-pensioner-left-heartbroken-after-son-stole-18-000-from-him.aspx
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