Teh One Who Knocks
08-30-2017, 11:16 AM
By John Ferguson and Ashlie McAnally - The Mirror
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A callous mum who blew her grandma's £22,000 life savings on luxury goods including a sex toy has been spared jail.
Nicole Speirs, 27, used Pearl Williams’s bank details and splashed hundreds on clothes, jewellery, a hot tub and "everything she could think of".
Pearl has reportedly been left feeling "devastated" especially as the pair were close.
Speirs' invoices from the four-month Amazon internet shopping spree included a £373 hot tub, a £443 remote-controlled drone, a £200 iPad mini and £24.99 for the vibrating sex toy.
She also bought hundreds of pounds worth of clothes and jewellery during the buying binge between January 16 and May 25 last year.
Speirs, from Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow, was only caught after devastated Pearl, who will soon be 79, went into the bank to *withdraw cash, only to find her account had been emptied.
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After other relatives *intervened, Nicole was charged by police and pleaded guilty to defrauding her elderly gran of £22,416 at Glasgow Sheriff Court last week.
A source told the Daily Record: “What an utterly terrible thing to do to a *defenceless old lady – and her own grandmother as well.
“Pearl has been more than generous to Nicole her whole life, doing anything she could to help her.
“That Nicole has repaid her like this is just disgusting – the lowest of the low.
“The poor woman will be 80 next year, she just crumbled when she realised what had happened.
“She is now staying with a relative in Portugal trying to get over the whole thing. Luckily another family member managed to deal with the situation on her behalf."
Speirs admitted fraud by letter earlier this month.
Sheriff Brian Cameron handed mum-of-one Spiers a community payback order with the conditions she must carry out 200 hours unpaid work within six months, and be supervised in the community for 15 months.
Passing sentence on the mum-of one, who fought tears in the dock, he said: “This was a gross and obnoxious breach of trust.”
Spiers has a young son with health difficulties and admitted her guilt from the outset.
The sheriff added: “But for those two factors you would be going to prison today.”
The court heard that of the money spent, only £9,916 was recovered, the Record reports.
https://i.imgur.com/LYyAv5o.jpg
A callous mum who blew her grandma's £22,000 life savings on luxury goods including a sex toy has been spared jail.
Nicole Speirs, 27, used Pearl Williams’s bank details and splashed hundreds on clothes, jewellery, a hot tub and "everything she could think of".
Pearl has reportedly been left feeling "devastated" especially as the pair were close.
Speirs' invoices from the four-month Amazon internet shopping spree included a £373 hot tub, a £443 remote-controlled drone, a £200 iPad mini and £24.99 for the vibrating sex toy.
She also bought hundreds of pounds worth of clothes and jewellery during the buying binge between January 16 and May 25 last year.
Speirs, from Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow, was only caught after devastated Pearl, who will soon be 79, went into the bank to *withdraw cash, only to find her account had been emptied.
https://i.imgur.com/og0MpTO.jpg
After other relatives *intervened, Nicole was charged by police and pleaded guilty to defrauding her elderly gran of £22,416 at Glasgow Sheriff Court last week.
A source told the Daily Record: “What an utterly terrible thing to do to a *defenceless old lady – and her own grandmother as well.
“Pearl has been more than generous to Nicole her whole life, doing anything she could to help her.
“That Nicole has repaid her like this is just disgusting – the lowest of the low.
“The poor woman will be 80 next year, she just crumbled when she realised what had happened.
“She is now staying with a relative in Portugal trying to get over the whole thing. Luckily another family member managed to deal with the situation on her behalf."
Speirs admitted fraud by letter earlier this month.
Sheriff Brian Cameron handed mum-of-one Spiers a community payback order with the conditions she must carry out 200 hours unpaid work within six months, and be supervised in the community for 15 months.
Passing sentence on the mum-of one, who fought tears in the dock, he said: “This was a gross and obnoxious breach of trust.”
Spiers has a young son with health difficulties and admitted her guilt from the outset.
The sheriff added: “But for those two factors you would be going to prison today.”
The court heard that of the money spent, only £9,916 was recovered, the Record reports.