A carer who used a dying man s bank card to fund more than 100 transactions on a lavish £17,000 shopping spree has been jailed for 14 months.
Lynn Hopkin, 54, stole thousands of pounds from Robin Clark to fund family holidays to Disneyland Paris, online shopping and even a new hoover to remember him by .
Hopkin met terminally-ill Mr Clark when he was admitted to Forest Holme hospice and over the course of a month she made more than 100 fraudulent transactions.
She continued right up until a week after his death and managed to empty every last penny from her victim s bank account.
Judge Robert Pawson called it a systematic and wicked crime against a vulnerable, dying patient as he jailed Hopkin for 14 months.
A HOSPICE carer who used a dying man’s bank card for a spending spree has been jailed for her “systematic and wicked” crime. Lynn Hopkin, 54, stole £17,241.60 from Robin Clark as she went about using his money to fund a variety of purchases, including holidays. A Bournemouth Crown Court hearing on Friday, April 30, was told Hopkin carried out 101 transactions on the card. This offending started days after Mr Clark was transferred to Forest Holme hospice from hospital in summer 2019. The spending continued over several weeks, and was discovered when one of his executors visited a cashpoint after his death to find his bank account had been “drained of every last penny”.
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