N H S Worker Robs O A P..

[Spicerack]

Do you think she might have done this before?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-45904875

[retrocop]

Well I hope she is never in a position to do it again. I wouldn't trust her to change a bedpan.

[Patsy33]

Probably! Who'd have thought, A doctor!..Wicked woman. I hope she's been struck off!

[anotheoldgit]

Only jailed for 5 years? That sets a good example for anyone else to take the risk of getting their hands on someone else's fortune.

[hereIam]

Blimey some Dr. she is !

[Jackdaw33]

Almost as bad as Shipman.

[Mamyalynne]

What a cruel deception , thank heavens she was caught.

[Jackdaw33]

The thing is, she'll only do 2 1/2 years.

[ToraToraTora]

Dam savage should never see the light of day again.

[fiction-factory]

Yes, sentence does seem short. There is probably more of this sort of thing that goes on than is ever found out.

I am puzzled by a couple of things-
(a)if the patient was a dementia patient I am surprised about the bit that said: When asked by police whether the doctor had assisted with her financial affairs, Mrs Belham told an officer: "I think she just helped herself." Would her testomony be reliable?
(b) if she was childless who were her grandchildren?

[fiction-factory]

^testimony

[Mamyalynne]

It was the Doctor's Grandchildren that were due to benefit.

[Spicerack]

It was the Doctor's grandchildren who stood to inherit, FF.

[cashier]

Alemi's grandchildren. The psychiatrist.

[fiction-factory]

Thanks. I must have misread or misremembered it - I thought I'd read that the doctor was childless. I'll reread it later

[Spicerack]

She was carefully chosen. No close family. Probably would have got away with it if she'd been patient enough to wait for her death before starting to rob her.

[wolf63]

I know that doctors no longer get the respect that they did in years gone by - it is probably good that we don't blindly follow the medical advice without question.

But to get to her position she must have studied for years, and now she has ruined everything that she worked for just to get some money.

I am always surprised when a doctor commits a serious crime - maybe I expect higher standards from them.

If she is dealing with vulnerable and/or mentally ill patients it makes her crime much more distasteful.

[Spicerack]

Agreed. It's not as if she, or Doctors in general, should be short of money.

[anneasquith]

Dreadful, but hardly shipman.

[Peter Pedant]

// I hope she's been struck off!//
yes a conviction such as this will give rise to a GMC case and her registration will go down the tube

The woman is still alive by the way .... I am not sure how the dispossessed relatives got the will

and yes Shipman was uncovered by forging Mrs Grundy's will

[Spicerack]

I read she stole a couple of watches. Hence the police got involved and everything else came to light.
As I said, if only she'd been patient.