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Laine Clark

Pokies-addicted elderly woman defrauds stroke victim

Each day Shirley Ann Eiby would visit her dear friend at a nursing home.

And each day Eiby would dishonestly withdraw money from the stroke victim's accounts - almost $300,000 in total - to spend on poker machines.

Eiby, 80, faced Brisbane District Court on Thursday for what Judge Vicki Loury described as elder abuse.

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