Attorney Charged In £90,000 Ripoff Of Recently Widowed Blind 90-Year Old; Allegedly Forged POA Before Looting Senior's Savings Accounts

In Codsall, U.K., the Express & Star reports:

• A scheming solicitor branded The Vulture swindled £90,000 from the blind widow of a millionaire Black Country industrialist, the Express & Star can reveal. Veronica Wilkinson spent thousands on plastic surgery, designer clothes, pets and a £37,000 Audi within days of the death of 86-year-old Les Carrier. Mr Carrier, former chairman of Wednesbury-based steel firm FH Lloyds, lived with his wife Doris, known as Dot, for most of their married life in Codsall.

• Wilkinson was head of the wills and probate department at the Codsall office of law firm Dunham, Brindley and Linn – now DBL Talbots – when she forged a document to give her power of attorney over Mrs Carrier’s financial affairs. In less than two months, the debt-ridden lawyer plundered £72,086 from the 90-year-old’s Lloyds TSB bank account and £21,150 from her Hinckley Building Society account.

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