A woman blew £50,000 of her dementia-stricken father's savings which was supposed to pay his care home fees. Alison Carson told a social worker she'd spent all the money and resorted to buying scratch cards in a desperate bid to "win it back".
A sheriff warned today that she could be jailed, saying it was “shocking “ that the woman insists she did nothing wrong.Carson, 53, of Shotts, Lanarkshire, admitted embezzling the cash between August 2016 and February 2018.
Airdrie Sheriff Court heard that she was appointed welfare and financial guardian for her dad, Hugh McMath, when he developed dementia.
He lived in Airdrie, but she struggled to look after him there and he moved to the town's Rawyards Care Home in October 2015.
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