Care home worker jailed for stealing thousands of pounds in savings from vulnerable residents
Abiola Akinremi, 41, abused her position as an administrator at the facility, Bostall House in Abbey Wood, southeast London, to make dozens of unauthorised withdrawals from the bank accounts of patients.
She plundered almost £20,000 from the savings of vulnerable residents and has been jailed for seven months.
The Old Bailey heard some of the home’s residents are detained under the Mental Health Act, and those without family support hand over control of their finances to administrators and carers.
Akinremi, a mother-of-three, first started stealing from residents when she needed money for childcare, and continued the fraud to “fund her own lifestyle”, the court heard.
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.”
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”, said Mr Levack.
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 ultimately 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.
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