Wheelchair-Bound Senior Left £27,000 Delinquent On Nursing Home Bills After Con Man Used POA In £200,000 Ripoff

In Bradford, West Yorkshire, the Bradford Telegraph & Argus reports:

• A conman who fleeced a trusting pensioner of her life savings so he could buy luxury goods has been ordered to pay her £76,000 in compensation. Bhupinder Sahota milked nearly £200,000 from the bank accounts of 85-year-old wheelchair-bound Marie Rose Penn after she granted him Power of Attorney over her finances. Sahota was jailed for three years in June after pleading guilty to four charges of theft and two of fraud.

• Bradford Crown Court was told that it had been agreed between the prosecution and defence that the amount of criminal benefit available was £76,000. Prosecutor Paul Nicholson said Mrs Penn’s nursing home fees were mounting and she was now in the region of £27,000 in debt to the nursing home.

For more, see Bradford conman fleeced vulnerable pensioner.