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May 2021
A carer from Harrogate has been jailed for three years after defrauding a disabled woman in her care of £18,000 and then going on a shopping spree.
Corina Rose Lyons, 54, tricked the victim, who uses a wheelchair, into handing over her credit card and money from an inheritance, claiming she needed to borrow the money for essential costs.
As part of a “convoluted tissue of lies” Lyons from Pannal Green, convinced the woman to hand over her credit card after telling her she had been offered a job as a code-writer for Sony and needed money for software, York Crown Court heard.
She then went on a £10,000 spending spree, said prosecutor Helen Towers.
Lyons was arrested following the six-year con and denied the allegations – even trying to pin the blame on the victim.
On the day of her trial though, she admitted three counts of fraud.
At the sentence hearing on Thursday, Ms Towers said the victim suffered from a condition which caused her chronic pain.
Lyons, who was working for a Harrogate care group, became one of her carers in 2004. In 2010, Lyons became her sole carer and was trusted by the victim.
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