article_snippet.sent: A £13,000 fee to move himself mother, from South Shields, into a care home in January 2013 had to be paid by the council because the council bank balance had been diminished by the council 's spending.
article_snippet.sent: A trusted son continued to access the cash until the balance was zero.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Penny Moreland told Judge Penny Moreland: 'his mother had had anxieties in the last years of his mother life that his mother money was going missing but, because of his mother illness, that was not taken seriously. '
article_snippet.sent: This was a gross breach of trust.
article_snippet.sent: It is hard to imagine someone more vulnerable than an elderly lady with Alzheimer's, unable to protect his mother from you accessing his mother accounts and taking what you wanted. '
article_snippet.sent: You simply treated her money as your own.'
article_snippet.sent: Prosecutor Tim Gittins told Newcastle Crown Court: 'It is clear, very soon after Prosecutor Tim Gittins opened an appointee account set up at Lloyds Bank, which held his mother's cash after her Alzheimer's diagnosis in 2009, Prosecutor Tim Gittins began to use the monies for Prosecutor Tim Gittins own purposes.'
article_snippet.sent: Newcastle Crown Court would also place bets on gambling sites directly from an appointee account set up at Lloyds Bank, which held his mother's cash after her Alzheimer's diagnosis in 2009. '
article_snippet.sent: The amounts of monies varied from a couple of hundred pounds to £8,000 in one particular month in June 2010,' Prosecutor Tim Gittins added. '
article_snippet.sent: Ms Wilson describes Ms Wilson mother and father had very little when her mother and father started out and had built up what her mother and father had by working very hard. '