An insensitive son depleted his savings with no food or heating as his elderly mother battled dementia.
Gordon Stewart was entrusted with managing her household after her 94-year-old mother, Mary, fell ill, but she soon turned to her pensioner. I started using my property for my own purposes. Stewart, 58, often leaves little food at home for her mother, and at her home in Ormiston,East his Lothian, temperatures were below freezing, so much so that her mother used blankets. Caregivers sometimes found them huddled together under their paws.
The bus driver was said to have regularly used Mary's cash for things like road taxes, gasoline, and fast food orders. Stewart was arrested in Edinburgh Sheriff's Court on Wednesday after previously admitting to carrying out a fraudulent scheme using his mother's money for himself between April 2018 and January 2019. I went to
Attorney Julie Torrey said that her client was "sick and ready to handle the responsibilities of managing his mother's finances" but that his crimes were "a lot of work." The defense's Tory said Stewart "apologised and remorseful", adding that he had received online threats from locals after his guilty plea last month.
Sheriff Douglas Kiel said it was a "very sad and disgusting incident" and acknowledged that Stewart was deemed "unlikely to repeat offense". has ordered Stewart, from Imouth, Berwickshire, to work 160 hours of unpaid work in the community to be completed in the next 18 months.
Previously, the court had been told that Stewart had been given a power of attorney for his mother's finances and was responsible for ensuring that his mother's needs were paid for and cared for. Deputy Finance Secretary Gillian Coren told her that Mary Stewart regularly "runs out of bread" and her son is "too busy to shop for her." .
Finances were concerned that caregivers would have to pay for the elderly woman's meals out of their own pockets, he added. I heard that pensioners' homes were regularly "freezing" because they weren't.
Mary said she was diagnosed with dementia and Alzheimer's disease in 2018, and a medical evaluation found she had "very weak short-term memory and didn't know who was in control of the money." It turns out. Stewart resigned from her power of attorney in December 2018 after an investigation into her financial situation found the money had been used to pay her son's gas bill, road tax and fast food bills. .
A few weeks later, Mr. Stewart said his mother made several trips to the local bank to withdraw more money from her account. Colen said bank staff on high alert worried and reported the matter to the police.
This finance added that Stewart withdrew a total of £2000 from her mother's account and that the crime was carried out when Mary was 94 and 95 years old. Mary, known to her friends as May, died in April 2020.
Stewart is incapable of consenting to Mary His Stewart, from April 1.
