A heartless carer is facing jail after fraudulently using a vulnerable 90-year-old woman's bank card.
Lynsey Johnston had been employed to look after the pensioner but instead abused her position of trust by using her cards to pay off her own debts. A court heard that the 35-year-old's illegal spending was rumbled in the summer of 2019 when her patient was hospitalised and her family sought to review her care plans.
They were shocked to discover the irregular payments and Northumbria Police were contacted. Johnston, of Waverley Road, in Low Fell, Gateshead, was arrested but denied any wrongdoing, claiming she had an agreement with family to make purchases on the elderly woman’s cards, which she did not.
