A person accused of embezzling his girlfriend's life financial savings whereas she was in hospital, despatched £115,000 to a different lady - then married her, a court docket was informed. William Dunn took money from the accounts of Lynda Grant, a most cancers nurse, who needed to retire on account of medical issues.
His Paisley Sheriff Courtroom trial heard yesterday that he despatched £115,000 from Lynda’s financial institution to Karen Anne Dolan. Lynda labored on the NHS’ Beatson West of Scotland Most cancers Centre, the place she helped sufferers battling the illness.
And the court docket heard Dunn additionally transferred £5,971.46 from her Nationwide Well being Service pension to his personal account. Simply months after the funds had been made, Dunn and Dolan tied the knot.
Prosecutors declare Dunn, 69, pocketed the cash after being granted Energy of Legal professional over Lynda, 63. Dunn, of Elderslie, Renfrewshire, denies embezzling £122,027.15 between Might 26, 2015, and March 1, 2017.
The court docket heard Lynda had moved in with Dunn and that they deliberate to spend the remainder of their lives collectively. However she spent almost two years in hospital and a care dwelling after experiencing issues from an operation and growing sepsis and a mind harm.
When she was launched from the care dwelling she found there was just some hundred kilos left in her accounts - and that Dunn had bought married to Dolan. Yesterday, the jury was informed agreed details within the case.
It was revealed that £115,000 had been moved from Lynda’s accounts into Dunn’s after which despatched to Dolan in 9 transactions. The doc additionally revealed that Dunn and Dolan then wed on October 29, 2016.
Dunn denies embezzling the cash, claiming that he agreed with Lynda and her son, Alan Grant, to scale back her property and make investments her money so she wouldn’t be answerable for care dwelling prices. Lynda stated she had no reminiscence of agreeing to the plot and insisted it was one thing she would by no means have executed.
Alan, who works as a instructor in Abu Dhabi, within the United Arab Emirates, additionally denied involvement together with his mum and Dunn in lowering her property. The 38-year-old was requested by prosecutor David McDonald if they'd colluded in a bid to decrease her care dwelling prices.
He replied: “I fully and totally reject that. Completely not, completely not. My mom, in one million years, wouldn't do one thing like that, and neither would I.”
The court docket heard Dunn informed Alan totally different tales about what had occurred to the cash and stated he would pay it again. Nonetheless he hasn’t repaid something, it’s been claimed.
The jury was informed Dunn claimed the cash was tied up in an ISA that would solely be accessed each six months and could be despatched to Alan in January 2017. However Alan stated he by no means acquired the cash and was informed it had been invested in an organization within the Isle of Man which went bust.
He stated: “So far as I used to be involved what had been stated was a load of garbage. All we may do was contact the police or simply settle for that the cash was gone. It was fairly clear one thing was not proper. There was totally different excuses and tales. The belief was gone.”
The trial, earlier than Sheriff Bruce Erroch QC, continues.
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