A fraudster who stole more than £136,000 from a solicitor's firm using the bank account of an elderly client with dementia has been jailed.
Sarah Aikenhead plundered so much money, the company almost went out of business, Minshull Street Crown Court heard last week.
The mum-of-one spent the cash on her wedding, holidays, shopping sprees at designer retailers, and gave £30,000 to her brother, the court was told.
Aikenhead, 37, who has bipolar disorder, began her scam in May 2019, prosecutor Wayne Jackson said. She first abused her position at the solicitor's firm to empty the bank account of Pamela Sread, an elderly client who lived in a care home, the Manchester Evening News reports.
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