A WOMAN who admitted burgling and defrauding an elderly blind couple and stealing from an elderly man with Parkinson’s has been jailed.
Predatory Sammy-Jo Dillon deliberately targeted the elderly and vulnerable”, Plymouth Crown Court was told.
Dillon, 35, formerly of Crozier Road, Plymouth, had pleaded guilty earlier in the week to one count of theft, a count of burglary and four further counts of fraud. She appeared for sentence via video link from HMP Eastwood Park women’s prison.
Prosecutor Dan Pawson-Pounds told the court how Dillon’s first victim was an 80-year-old man who suffered from Parkinson’s which made him “effectively housebound”. He said Dillon’s two other victims were a former married couple who were both blind and both in their 70s. While the couple were no longer married, they lived in the same street and remained friends, with the man helping out the woman, who had cerebral palsy.
The court was told Dillon cultivated a relationship with the first victim over a period of time and within mere days of leaving prison began to convince him to part with cash “consensually”. Mr PawsonPounds noted that even though the victim had read local media coverage of her previous offences, he continued to give her money and allowed repeated visits by her to his home in early April of this year.
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