A woman from Lowestoft has been give a jail sentence

Sunday, 24 March 2024 17:00

A woman from Lowestoft has been give a jail sentence, suspended for two years, after an incident of fraud.

A woman from Lowestoft has been give a jail sentence, suspended for two years, after an incident of fraud.

34 year old Charlene Taylor of Hawthorn Avenue, Lowestoft was given an 18 month jail sentence, suspended for two years after she pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud by false representation.

Between 1 July 2020 and 16 December 2021, Taylor used the victim's bank account details without his permission spending just under £24,000. The male victim, is aged 80 with a series of health problems and lives on his own. His neighbour visited him on a daily basis and he got to know his neighbour's nephew and his partner who was Taylor. She befriended the victim and become visitor a on a regular basis and regularly cooked them Sunday lunch and trusted them to be in his house.

Concern was raised when the victim's niece visited him and the victim alerted her to the fact a large amount of mony was missing from his account. On close inspection of the accounts it showed up unauthorised transactions into Taylor's account spanning July 2021 to December 2021 of over £23,000.

In April 2022 a second victim came forward to report a similar fraud after money had been withdrawn from her PayPal account without her permission. The female victim had a notification from PayPal to say she was £2250 in debt and looking at her account saw three unauthorised transactions of £290, £2000, and £165.