A carer who used a dying man s bank card to fund more than 100 transactions on a lavish £17,000 shopping spree has been jailed for 14 months.
Lynn Hopkin, 54, stole thousands of pounds from Robin Clark to fund family holidays to Disneyland Paris, online shopping and even a new hoover to remember him by .
Hopkin met terminally-ill Mr Clark when he was admitted to Forest Holme hospice and over the course of a month she made more than 100 fraudulent transactions.
She continued right up until a week after his death and managed to empty every last penny from her victim s bank account.
Judge Robert Pawson called it a systematic and wicked crime against a vulnerable, dying patient as he jailed Hopkin for 14 months.