AN "ASTONISHINGLY selfish" daughter has escaped a prison sentence after she stole £18,000 from her blind mother.
Nicola Jane James, 52, stole the money from the 87-year-old's ISA savings account after getting into debt through gambling, Hereford Crown Court heard on Friday.
James, of Pixley Walk in Hereford, was told by the judge that she acted in an "astonishingly selfish and predatory way" as he sentenced her to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years.
The court was told by prosecution barrister Abigail Nixon the sum had been taken from the victim's bank account between between January 1, 2017 and the end of December 2019, but she had "shown distress" that her daughter could go to prison.