{"id":140233,"date":"2018-06-12T17:43:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T17:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/halifax-gambling-addict-stole-grandmothers-life-savings\/"},"modified":"2018-06-12T17:43:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T17:43:06","slug":"halifax-gambling-addict-stole-grandmothers-life-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/halifax-gambling-addict-stole-grandmothers-life-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"Halifax gambling addict stole grandmother’s life savings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image caption Darren Gledhill was jailed at Bradford Crown Court for 28 months <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A gambling addict who stole more than \u00a3430,000 from his grandmother to fund his habit has been jailed.<\/p>\n

Darren Gledhill, 30, plundered his elderly gran's life savings over three years, leaving her three children with no inheritance following her death.<\/p>\n

Bradford Crown Court heard he began stealing from Sandra Gledhill after he set up an online bank account for her.<\/p>\n

Jailing him for 28 months, Judge Durham Hall QC said the emotional distress he had caused was "beyond calculation".<\/p>\n

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The court heard Gledhill, who worked as a manager for Sainsbury's, stole amounts ranging from \u00a31.20 to \u00a310,200 by transferring the money in to his own account.<\/p>\n

The offence came to light when the care home where his grandmother was living realised she was more than \u00a340,000 in arrears.<\/p>\n

When police checked her bank accounts they found Gledhill had made 350 bank transfers between June 2014 and November 2017.<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Philip Adams said the money should have gone to Mrs Gledhill's three surviving children following her death in January.<\/p>\n

'Prodigious loser'<\/h2>\n

Abigail Langford, for Gledhill, said he had been in the grips of an online gambling addiction.<\/p>\n

She said: "He was clearly in the grip of a downward spiral of depression at the time of the commission of these offences, sadly unrecognised by him."<\/p>\n

"He will never be able to repay the money he took.<\/p>\n

"It causes him great distress now in the cold light of day."<\/p>\n

Judge Durham Hall QC said: "You were a prodigious gambler and I suspect, as there is nothing left, a prodigious loser."<\/p>\n

Gledhill, of Hebble Gardens, Halifax, pleaded guilty to a charge of theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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