UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
Betrayed by his own VICAR: Reverend jailed for stealing dementia sufferer’s £61,000 life savings to spend on gambling sprees and his own daughter’s wedding
By Hugo Gye
A Catholic priest has been jailed after cheating an elderly dementia sufferer out of his life savings and spending the money on gambling and his daughter’s wedding.
Peter Hesketh persuaded widower Peter Court to sign over power of attorney to him and claimed to be investing in lucrative business deals.
But instead he took more than £60,000 from the vulnerable pensioner to pay for his own mortgage – later telling police that the money had been given to him in return for managing Mr Court’s finances.
Hesketh, 65, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison after being found guilty of theft at Worcester Crown Court.
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