Posted: Friday, 22 August 2025 @ 14:49
This rarely happens but this is a report of when someone is convicted of elderly fraud, but this did take time.
A man who stole tens of thousands of pounds from his elderly parents and then attempted to bully them and his ex-partner into dropping the allegations has been jailed.
On 13th August at Swindon Crown Court, Brett Conway, 66, was sentenced to six years and eight months’ imprisonment following two trials by jury.. Both his parents have now sadly died.
Between December 2017 and June 2018, Conway took advantage of his elderly parents’ frailties and vulnerabilities by independently transferring almost £52,000 out of the joint account of his father, who was suffering from severe dementia, and his elderly mother.
He claimed it was for mortgage payments and building work on the property in which his parents lived, which Conway owned. .During the investigation however, it was established that much of the money stolen was being used to cover Conway’s increasing and substantial credit card debt of more than £75,000.
My firm comes across a lot of elderly fraud but most events do not reach an outcome of criminal conviction.