‘Unofficial carer’ stole €41k from elderly victim

A woman became her elderly neighbour’s carer before stealing over €41,000 from her and spending it on home improvements, clothes and holidays, a court has heard.

Laura Pennick, aged 29, with an address in Bride St, Dublin 8, pleaded guilty to the thefts totalling €41,935 from Marie McNally between January 2010 and December 2012.

Garda Colin Rourke told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court yesterday that Pennick befriended Ms McNally when she was living two doors from her in Finglas.