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jail and pledged to return the cash. Clair and Louise Smith’s victims said they’ve not even had an apology from the pair, who had posed as their doting carers.Speaking for the first time about the betrayal, Crawford Pirrie, 73, and wife Marlene, 75, said: “We’re ashamed to be related to them.”The 25-year-olds were trusted with the frail couple’s bank card to run errands for them – but swiped £8000.

twin granddaughters have launched an online bid to get their cash back – after the thieving sisters avoided having to pay compensation.Crawford and Marlene Pirrie, from Irvine, Ayrshire, were left heartbroken when Marlene’s grandchildren Clair and Louise Smith drained their bank account of £8000 while posing as doting carers of the pensioners.Relatives were furious when the 25-year-old twins avoided jail last week, with a sheriff sentencing them to a three-month tagging order and making no order for them to pay back the cash.Crawford and Marlene’s daughter Lyndsey Brown, 41, told the Record she had launched a crowdfunder in a bid to restore the couple’s “faith in humanity” after learning that the bank will not compensate any of the stolen

A heartless pair of thieving twins have been spared jail after stealing their own grandparents’ life savings - and even dodged an order to pay back the money.

stole their own grandparents’ life savings have hit out after they escaped jail - and dodged an order to pay back the money.Heartless Clair and Louise Smith, 25, posed as doting carers while swiping £8,000 from the bank account of their grandparents in Irvine, Ayrshire.The twins pleaded guilty to clearing out the cash while running errands for vulnerable Crawford Pirrie, 73, and wife Marlene, 75.Yesterday the twins were sentenced to a three-month tagging order - branded a “slap in the face” by disgusted relatives - and escaped a compensation order.They held hands and sobbed in the dock as they learned they were being spared prison at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court.Crawford’s daughter Lyndsey Brown - who had called for the twins to be jailed -

Heartless twins who cleaned out their gran's life savings boasted they were "bad" and as thick as thieves before their brazen theft. Clair and Louise Smith swiped £8,000 from their grandparents while posing as their doting carers.The 25-year-olds pocketed the four-figure sum in just five weeks while running errands for vulnerable Crawford Pirrie, 73, and wife Marlene, 75.