A care worker stole thousands of pounds from a dementia patient he was
looking after.
Jamie Thompson, 24, took the 93-year-old’s bank card while working at the
Nunthorpe Oaks care home in 2016.
He withdrew cash between July 6 and August 12 last year, with the victim
only realising his card was missing when he tried to buy lunch when out with his
daughter.
In a statement read out at Teesside Crown Court on Wednesday, the man’s daughter said she could not tell
her father the extent of what had happened because he would have been
‘shattered’ at the news.
Thompson, who originally denied the charge, later changed his plea to
guilty.
He admitted taking £3,060 over several days, withdrawing between £300 and
£400 each time.
Judge Simon Bourne Arton QC, The Recorder of Middlesbrough, said the
theft was a “nasty and mean offence” against a “93-year-old man who was in his
last days”.
He sentenced Thompson, of Valiant Way, Thornaby , to 10 months in
prison, suspended for 18 months.
Gazette.
