A 63-YEAR-old woman has been given a suspended jail sentence for defrauding her brother.
Julie Postans, of Isbourne Crescent, Evesham, was sentenced at Worcester Crown Court after admitting the offence.
The court heard the fraud took place between January 1, 2017 and May 1, 2020 with Postans transferring her brother's cash into her own bank account in an abuse of a position of trust.
As previously reported the particulars of the offence were that Postans ‘dishonestly, and intending thereby to make a gain for yourself, abused your position as a financial advocate in which you were expected to safeguard, or not to act against, the financial interests of another, namely David Postans, by transferring money into your own account without repaying it’.
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Postans had originally denied the count changing her plea before an expected two-day trial.
Postans was jailed for 19 months, suspended for two years.
As part of her suspended sentence Postans must do 140 hours of unpaid work.
The case was heard on April, February 17.
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