A greedy heiress who stole the life savings of her elderly mother to buy household luxuries and pamper her two dogs has been jailed for four years.
Care worker Luana Dougherty, 50, had already been given a £125,000 share of Margaret Trimer’s fortune from the sale their £370,000 family home after she offered to look after her mum when she developed Alzheimer’s.
But Dougherty exploited both her job and her mother’s mental condition to download a banking app onto her mobile phone to access her mum’s account and withdraw over £1,000 at a time.
Over one four-day period, she was transferring £20,000 a day into her own account and in all stole £216,000.
Dougherty was caught after she bragged to her son she was going to put a £60,000 deposit on a house and other relatives made enquiries with Mrs Trimmer’s bank.
It emerged Dougherty had spent ‘thousands’ on her Staffordshire Bull Terrier-type hounds, furniture, and setting up a …