Financial adviser gained 'vulnerable' elderly woman's trust, then conned her out of brother's £40k inheritance

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A financial adviser who stole more than £50,000 from a vulnerable, elderly woman has been locked up. Winifred Hawthorn had no surviving family members when Daniel Williams began taking advantage of her.

Ms Hawthorn, who had worked as a radiographer, passed away before seeing justice. A kindly neighbour who grew suspicious of Williams claimed that she had become ‘scared’ to remain at her home in Bury.

She spent the last period of her life, aged in her early 80s, in a care home. READ MORE: Two men jailed after grooming ‘troubled and vulnerable’ young boys before vile sexual abuse Williams, 55, from Didsbury, who said he had ‘issues with gambling, alcohol, and prescription drugs’, has now been jailed for two years and two months for fraud.

Minshull Street Crown Court heard that Ms Hawthorn came to know Williams after her brother passed away, as he had dealt with his affairs.