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Nigerian Care Home Worker Imprisoned For Stealing £20,000 From Vulnerable Residents In The UK

Ousmane Fabayo Editor,Lagos Nigeria by Ousmane Fabayo Editor,Lagos Nigeria
January 15, 2023
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Nigerian Care Home Worker Imprisoned For Stealing £20,000 From Vulnerable Residents In The UK

A 41-year-old Nigerian care home female worker, Abiola Akinremi, has been handed a seven months jail term by a UK court for stealing almost £20.000 from the savings of vulnerable residents to fund her lifestyle.

The convict, Abiola Akinremi, who stole nearly £20,000  from vulnerable residents of a home in the United Kingdom has been sentenced to seven months in prison, Mediaafrica tv reliably gathered.

According to reports, the mother of three was arraigned before the court for using her position as an administrator at the facility, Bostall House located in Abbey Wood, southeast London, to make dozens of unauthorized withdrawals from the bank accounts of patients resident in the home.

While presenting the case against the accused, the prosecuting team disclosed that “some of the residents in the home are detained under the Mental Health Act, and those without family support hand over control of their finances to administrators and carers.”

Police investigations showed that Ms. Akinremi first started stealing from residents when she needed money for childcare, and continued the fraud to “fund her own lifestyle”.

“People who live at the home are all vulnerable; they have various conditions and are detained under the Mental Health Act or other legislation. It is a 24-hour care facility.”

Prosecutor Robert Levack told the court during the hearing process.

“They are not allowed to leave Bostall House without a member of staff or a family member. Some have their financial affairs looked after by the home.”

Investigators were brought in when concerns about Akinremi’s activities were raised in November 2018. They found £43,000 was missing from residents’ bank accounts, including £32,000 from one victim.

“The way in which cash and money was dealt with on behalf of residents at the home was not up to scratch”  Levack said.

Akinremi denied fraud until the first day of her trial, insisting that other staff at the home were trying to “pin the blame” on her. She however admitted taking £19,650 over the course of eight months from three residents, and continues to say others at the home were involved in wrongdoing.

“Ms Akinremi is only responsible for her own conduct”, her barrister, Ranjeet Dulay, said while  pointing to evidence of money being taken from residents at times when Akinremi was on holiday.

Dulay in defense of Ms Akinremi, said “the administrator had been suffering from depression when the fraud began and needed money for childcare when the fraud began.”

“It was initially an opportunistic offence, but she continued to engage in it further”, she said.

Akinremi went to work in another care home after being dismissed from Bostall House, and has been “trying to make amends and put into the type of community that she stole from”, added Ms Dulay.

Judge Rafferty rejected a plea for a suspended prison sentence, concluding only an immediate spell behind bars would be appropriate.

Akinremi, from Tilbury in Essex, pleaded guilty to three charges of fraud by abuse of position.

The presiding judge, Angela Rafferty KC, sentenced Akinremi to seven months in prison, telling her:

“This was a repeated and planned course of conduct, and a very serious breach of trust of vulnerable people.”

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