Overview
- Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court sentenced Lyndsey Newton, 62, to three-and-a-half years after her November conviction for fraud by abuse of position.
- She abused a Power of Attorney from 2015 to 2018 while the victim lived in a Barlaston care home, according to the judge’s sentencing remarks.
- Prosecutors put the total taken at £142,852.25, with bank records showing spending on home improvements, a US holiday, shopping trips and meals out.
- The judge said Newton searched for a cheaper care home as funds ran low; she denied wrongdoing, claiming consent, but the jury rejected her account.
- Staffordshire Police called it a clear abuse of trust, noted the victim died in 2019, and a proceeds of crime hearing is scheduled for June.