‘THE degree of the betrayal of trust was shocking,’ said Campbeltown Sheriff Patrick Hughes sentencing a woman who stole from her dementia-suffering parents.
For more than four years Alphonsa Strang, 57, of 63 Dalaruan Street, Campbeltown, who pleaded guilty to one charge of embezzlement, siphoned money, totalling £18,000 from her parents’ bank accounts after they were placed in separate care homes.
The procurator fiscal depute told the court last Thursday that Strang’s thieving began on January 6 2011 and went on until November 2015. Strang had power of attorney over her parents’ accounts.