Scotter fraudster who targeted pensioners dealt with at Grimsby Crown Court
A fraudster targeted elderly women in a bid to con cash out of them by pretending that her young son desperately needed specialist medical help in America, a court heard.
She told them she urgently needed to raise money for the boy and claimed he suffered from brittle bone disease.
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Judge David Tremberg
Leanne Albans, 31, of Marleau House, Lindholme, Scotter, admitted fraud, going equipped for theft, burglary and theft.
Nick Adlington, prosecuting, told Grimsby Crown Court that Albans was heavily pregnant at the time she visited elderly residents in Giblin Cottages, Scunthorpe, on August 15, 16 and 17.
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Two of the pensioners she spoke to were aged 80 and 67. One handed over £50 to Albans and the other £20.
In one of the warden-controlled homes, Albans took a purse.
Charlotte Eastwood, mitigating, said Albans admitted they were "not pleasant" offences.
Albans, who had been in custody, was given a two-year supervision order, with nine months of drug reviews.
Judge David Tremberg told Albans she had been the victim of a violent and abusive partner and she had been “fearful for her unborn child and laboured under pressure.”
He said she had devised a letter to trick vulnerable and elderly people into giving her money.
She had done so to pay for her partner’s drug debts, he said.
The court heard that Albans had 11 O levels and three A levels.
Comments
by filbert
Tuesday, November 06 2012, 9:32PM
“Warden controlled homes??”
by plasticscouse
Monday, November 05 2012, 8:33PM
“That judge looks like a close friend of jimmy saville.”
by WalterGulag
Monday, November 05 2012, 6:46PM
“'Albans had 11 O levels ' ?? She 31? Was she only 7 when she took them? They stopped doing them in 1988 didn't they?”
by gordonio
Monday, November 05 2012, 12:04PM
“The thing that's most worrying, is that people like these are allowed to breed!”
by Mozart
Monday, November 05 2012, 11:47AM
“"The court heard that Albans had 11 O levels and three A levels" but had failed the commonsense test miserably!”
by gordonio
Monday, November 05 2012, 10:16AM
“'fearful for her unborn child and laboured under pressure', dear me, you just couldn't make it up, who writes this tosh?”