![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/carer-stole-5000-from-vulnerable-patients-with-dementia-she-was-looking-after/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1_MAIN-split.jpg&description=Carer Faye Collins has been jailed after she stole £4,360 using a dementia patient's bank card, whilst already suspended for stealing money from another vulnerable woman A heartless carer, who was already suspended for stealing money from a vulnerable woman, struck again when she "despicably" stole £4,360 using a dementia patient's bank card. Faye Collins, a carer for elderly people with vulnerable conditions such as dementia, stole the money over eight separate withdrawals from one of the patients she cared for, between February 25 and March 18 2020, a court has heard. She was given the card to buy the woman cigarettes and brandy using the contactless feature. On March 14, the patient's daughter-in-law used the woman's bank card to do her weekly shop but the card was declined when she tried to withdraw £60 from an ATM. Collins, 25, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court this morning, in relation to two counts of fraud from when she worked as a walk-to-work carer at Best Care Liverpool in October 2019. James Rae, prosecuting, said the reality was the £60 would have taken the card past its daily withdrawal allowance of £500. Although Collins was never given the PIN code and instead was told to use tap and pay, the pin was written in the victim's notebook. When the victim's family investigated they found the page had been ripped out, reported the Liverpool Echo. The defendant even reported the card as missing to try and cover her tracks - and when a replacement card arrived on March 17 she went and made a new withdrawal. An investigation by the bank found there had been regular withdrawals on the card and each one had taken place when the defendant attended. Investigations found CCTV evidence of the defendant using the card and the following day she was suspended from her job by Best Care Liverpool. The victim's bank, Halifax was satisfied the withdrawals were fraudulent so reimbursed the money, but the defendant had benefited from the money for a period of nearly a month.){kind=link}
Carer Faye Collins has been jailed after she stole £4,360 using a dementia patient’s bank card, whilst already suspended for stealing money from another vulnerable woman
A heartless carer, who was already suspended for stealing money from a vulnerable woman, struck again when she “despicably” stole £4,360 using a dementia patient’s bank card.
Faye Collins, a carer for elderly people with vulnerable conditions such as dementia, stole the money over eight separate withdrawals from one of the patients she cared for, between February 25 and March 18 2020, a court has heard. She was given the card to buy the woman cigarettes and brandy using the contactless feature. On March 14, the patient’s daughter-in-law used the woman’s bank card to do her weekly shop but the card was declined when she tried to withdraw £60 from an ATM.
Collins, 25, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court this morning, in relation to two counts of fraud from when she worked as a walk-to-work carer at Best Care Liverpool in October 2019. James Rae, prosecuting, said the reality was the £60 would have taken the card past its daily withdrawal allowance of £500.
Although Collins was never given the PIN code and instead was told to use tap and pay, the pin was written in the victim’s notebook. When the victim’s family investigated they found the page had been ripped out, reported the Liverpool Echo.