Care home boss forged 85 year old's will to steal £178k View 3 Images

A devious care home manager who fabricated a pensioner's will to steal £178,000 has been sentenced to over five years in prison. Jamiel Slaney-Summers, 65, along with Graham Walker, 74, and his wife Lyn, 71, conspired to defraud vulnerable 85-year-old Rita Barnsley.

The police have described it as one of the UK's most significant cases of elder fraud. The three, who managed Amberley Care Home in Brierley Hill, West Midlands, concocted a "dubious" will to seize Ms Barnsley's £178,000 life savings.

Their scheme was designed to secure the majority of the estate, which comprised her £150,000 house and £28,000 in savings. The will, labelled a "sham" in court, was littered with varying handwriting styles and coloured pens

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