A Birmingham healthcare assistant who stole financial institution playing cards from a dying hospital affected person has been jailed for 9 months, after utilizing the cash to purchase sweets and garments.
Rebecca Ellis, 49, has been discovered responsible of theft and fraud after stealing from a affected person in her care.
The sufferer, Frederick Bromley, is a retired police officer and had been admitted to hospital after receiving palliative take care of terminal most cancers and struggling a dislocated hip.
Birmingham Crown Court docket heard how Ellis was assigned to the sufferer to take care of him, and the prosecutor stated “It could have been clear to the defendant that he was receiving palliative care.”
His daughter had put two Nationwide financial institution playing cards in a bag together with different gadgets and she or he later realised they weren’t the place she had left them.Ellis, of Arden Highway in Smethwick, used one of many playing cards, contactlessly, to purchase sweets from WH Smith on February 20 final yr.
In whole, Ellis spent £532 of Mr Bromley’s cash, with a few of her purchases being caught on CCTV.
In a video performed to the courtroom – recorded earlier than his loss of life – Mr Bromley stated: “I couldn’t transfer and was in excessive ache. I’m disgusted with the best way she has handled me.”
In a witness assertion Mr Bromley’s daughter, Anna Marie Bromley, stated her father was “extraordinarily susceptible” on the time and that she felt guilt about what had occurred.
