'I have bled you dry, there is nothing left'

Carer who stole €122,000 from elderly couple is spared prison

- CLAIRE HENRY and EIMEAR DODD

A CARER who stole €122,000 from an elderly couple during the pandemic and gave it to a romance fraudster she met online dodged jail yesterday.

Angela Manning, 59, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to seven sample charges of stealing money from an elderly couple via ATM withdrawals in Dublin, between April 2019 and September 2021.

She has no previous convictions. The court previously heard that Laetitia Lynam and her husband Enda O’Regan hired Manning as their carer. While Ms Lynam was self-isolating during the Covid-19 pandemic, Manning would call to her home and was given an ATM card by Ms Lynam to go food shopping.