A greedy hospital office worker has escaped prison for fleecing £19,000 from the estate of a porter with no family who made her an executor of his will two days before he died of cancer.
Mother-of-two Kate Connelly, 41, who worked as a clerical officer at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, made a series of cash withdrawals to spend on herself, money that Ken Sutherland had stipulated go to the dementia and oncology wards at the hospital where he had worked as a much-loved porter and which had cared for him in his final days.
But today (Wednesday) debt-ridden Connelly sobbed in court as a judge spared her a jail sentence because of concerns about who would care for her 13-year-old son if she was jailed.
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