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Key Issues in Financial Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults The Advocacy and Financial Abuse Project Sally Wells Action for Advocacy CONSETT NEWS Little money available to recover from care home thief Monday 8th March 2010 LITTLE money may be redeemed from a former nursing home administrator who stole thousands of pounds of residents’ money. Brenda Allen, now 45, took ￡5,900 belonging to four residents at Abigail Lodge Nursing Home, in Consett, County Durham, between July and November, 2004. She escaped an immediate prison sentence in January, after Durham Crown Court was told she was suffering mental health problems at the time. Allen transferred sums of between ￡100 and ￡1,000, either directly, or via a third party, into her own bank account. Her activities only emerged four years later when the family of one victim noticed discrepancies in her accounts following her death. Passing a 51-week prison sentence, suspended for two years, during which Allen must undergo psychiatric treatment, Recorder Martin Bethel QC said he accepted, with difficulty, she was suffering mental health difficulties at the time. But he also pointed to the calculated and deliberate nature of the thefts. A Proceeds of Crime hearing, at the court yesterday (MON), was told although ￡62,000 is recorded as having gone into Allen’s bank account around the time of the thefts, she now has few available funds. DERRY Journal - Stole ￡64k from care home residents Published Date: 08 March 2010 A 35 year-old woman has admitted stealing more than ￡64,000 from the residents of a care home. Juanita Ferguson, of Lower Nassau Street, admitted six charges of theft at Meadowbank Care Home between May 12, 2005 and February 6, 2006.A previous court hearing was told that in total the amount of cash stolen from the residents was in excess of ￡64,000.On Friday, Derry Crown Court Judge Desmond Marrinan told Ferguson the theft of cash from the residents of a care home was a very serio