'Nasty' care worker rumbled stealing cash from 93-year-old with dementia
dailystar.co.ukdementia sufferer and stole hundreds of pounds in a "sordid and nasty" offence. Paula Irvine, from Walton, was caught red-handed after the woman's daughter-in-law set up CCTV cameras because of her "suspicious and standoffish" behaviour.
The carer, who had been caring for the pensioner and her late husband for around five years, was spared jail after her six-week stealing spree. READ MORE 'Massive gas explosion blast' leaves house smoking wreck as whole roof blown off It comes after the daughter-in-law became "alarmed and confused" after she realised that around £600 had disappeared from her purse in June 2021.Liverpool Crown Court heard how she noticed further occasions where the money had gone missing - leading to her installing the security system the following month.Eight days later, cameras captured the moment Irvine crouched behind the armchair the woman was sitting in and rifled through her handbag.
When the family checked with employer Local Solutions, in transpired that she "wasn't rota'd to work that day and shouldn't have been there," reports Liverpool Echo.
In a last-ditch attempt to cover up her crimes, she placed an envelope containing £540 upstairs on the property and falsely told officers she had placed it there for safekeeping after seeing her victim's purse left near the unlocked back door.In total, Irvine had swindled at least £440 from her on five occasions in the space of just over a month.
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