article_snippet.sent: Sean Donohoe, 30, from Wilnecote, Tamworth, plundered a pensioner's life savings, blowing £28,500 on shopping sprees and lavish meals out .
article_snippet.sent: Sean Donohoe, 30, from Wilnecote, Tamworth, plundered the elderly woman's accounts before spending tens of thousands of pounds on trips to the Snowdome and in shops such as Argos and HMV.
article_snippet.sent: Sentencing A crooked builder at Birmingham Crown Court, the judge said Donohoe abused the woman's trust in 'every conceivable way'.
article_snippet.sent: By January 2011, Donohoe had started controlling the woman's finances.
article_snippet.sent: During that time, Donohoe applied for credit cards in her name and also ran up huge debts.
article_snippet.sent: Birmingham Crown Court heard how the victim also changed the victim will twice during Donohoe's two-year scam, leaving everything to the defendant.
article_snippet.sent: Lal Amarasinghe, prosecuting, said Donohoe used the money on trips to the Snowdome as well as on meals and at shops.
article_snippet.sent: A judge at Birmingham Crown Court (pictured) said Donohoe abused the woman's trust 'in every conceivable way'.
article_snippet.sent: (pictured) led to Donohoe being arrested.
article_snippet.sent: Police found Donohoe being arrested in possession of four credit cards, as well as a raft of documentation, in the widow's name.
article_snippet.sent: Nicholas Berry, defending, said Donohoe was suffering from anxiety and depression after the break-up of a previous relationship and had got into a financial troubles through gambling. '
article_snippet.sent: Donohoe was spiralling into debt and owed Donohoe father a lot of money.
article_snippet.sent: At that time, quite clearly, Donohoe saw the opportunity to fleece the victim in an appalling manner,' Donohoe said.
highlights_snippet.sent: He made her change her will, secretly took out life insurance policies and abused her trust 'in every conceivable way'
  Donohoe, who admitted theft and fraud, has now been jailed for 21 months .