Summarize and humanize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in EnglishAn elderly widow’s condemnation of an ‘evil’ niece who plundered her bank accounts was heard from beyond the grave as the swindling relative received a suspended prison sentence.Barbara Ross, who died aged 89 in 2020, called her niece Susan Morgan, now 69, ‘very nasty’ and ‘evil’ – having been left saddened her ‘nearest and dearest’ had behaved in such a way.Conniving Morgan, from Menai Bridge, Anglesey, North Wales, was spared jail after admitting fraud over a four-year period.When arrested, Morgan initially claimed to be ‘shocked’ and said she ‘loved Barbara as if she’d been her own mother’, said prosecutor Rosalind Scott-Bell.But an investigation found Mrs Ross’s bank card was used regularly for things she didn’t buy and cash withdrawals.A total of £218,831 was found to have gone missing from her accounts over four years between May 2013 and March 2017. Spared jail: Susan Morgan, who plundered bank accounts of £45,000 over a four-year periodMorgan later admitted being responsible for £45,000 of the fraud.Sentencing at Mold Crown Court, in North Wales, Judge Niclas Parry said Morgan had ‘taken advantage’ of someone with dementia.The judge, sitting last week, told how Mrs Ross, speaking to police before she died, was left feeling saddened that her ‘nearest and dearest’ had behaved in a way that left her ‘confused’.Mrs Ross had described Morgan as ‘very nasty….evil’, Judge Parry said.He added: ‘In her last days, that sadness, that anger, they were her emotions. Your conduct amounted to an abuse of position of trust and responsibility.’Prosecutor Ms Scott-Bell said the victim had lived in Halifax, West Yorkshire, but moved to North Wales after her husband of more than 40 years, Arnold, died in 2013.Mrs Ross began living with the defendant in a house she thought, wrongly, she was a part-owner through paying towards it.Ms Scott-Bell added: ‘The defendant was in a position of power or trust and responsibility in relation to her aged aunt who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The victim was particularly vulnerable.’The court heard Mrs Ross told a relative she felt Morgan had “taken over her life and her decisions” meaning she even had to ask for money for “toothpaste, tights and lipstick”.Mrs Ross had been “vulnerable, isolated and with mental capacity issues”, added the prosecutor.The pensioner later moved into a care home in May 2019, and died the following April. In happier times: Fraud victim Barbara Ross, right, with her husband Arnold prior to his deathPolice were contacted before Mrs Ross’s death.When interviewed, Morgan told them her aunt moved to North Wales with her and lived ‘rent free’. She said she ‘loved Barbara as if she had been her own mother’.She added they had been on two holidays including to Tenerife and denied taking her money from cash machines.Defence barrister Damian Nolan said that ‘however abhorrent’ her behaviour, Morgan was of previous good character, ‘remorseful’, and, he added, ‘her age would make prison very difficult’.The court heard Morgan, of Menai Bridge, Anglesey, and her former husband once ran a care home, Mold crown court heard.But there was no application for compensation because the defendant, made bankrupt in 2008, has no money.Imposing a two-year jail term, suspended for the same period, and a six-month overnight curfew, Judge Parry told Morgan there was ‘a line between having to make decisions on behalf of those who are not always able to make them, and on the other hand going further and taking advantage of that trust’.He said: ‘You crossed that line.’A previous hearing was told two other suspects accused of involvement in the fraud will not face any further action, as Morgan’s position was ‘the more egregious’.Speaking after the case, Mrs Ross’s stepdaughter, Patricia Ross, 74, claimed her stepmother had been duped into moving to Wales.Ms Ross, of Lytham St Anne’s, Lancashire, said: ‘I was going to move in with Barbara after my father died.‘But as I was making plans to move to Yorkshire, I was told by some of the relatives she did not want me there and instead she wanted to go to Wales.‘I now realise why they did that. They did not want her, they just wanted her money.‘My dad warned me before he died to make sure they did not get their hands on the money. Everything that went to Barbara should have passed to me.’Paying tribute to her step-mother, Ms Ross added: ‘She was a lovely lady and she and dad were happy together for over 40 years.’She said Mrs Ross’s money came from the sale of bungalow she and her husband shared in Halifax, which was meant to help with future care home fees.But Ms Ross added: ‘I later found out the care home had to tell her that her money had run out and she ended up having it paid by social services.‘She certainly never deserved that. I should never have let it happen and I regret it bitterly.’Ms Ross called on the police to further investigate what happened to the other £163,000.
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