My finest mate stole £16k of jewelry from my BLIND aunt, 102, after I employed her as a carer & even took her marriage ceremony ring

A WOMAN was devastated after she found her finest mate who she’d employed to take care of her 102-year-old nice aunt stole £16,000 of jewelry from the blind outdated age pensioner.

Yasmin Pugh, 31, was employed by Sara Otter, 33, to take care of disabled Beryl Isaac however took off with the fortune as a substitute.

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The thief raided Beryl’s jewelry field and made off with engagement and marriage ceremony rings, and a sentimental locket containing photographs of Sara’s late brother.

Pugh additionally pocketed cash from Sara’s five-year-old niece’s piggy financial institution – all whereas being paid to take care of the ailing OAP.

She even comforted Sara’s sobbing mum, reassuring her the jewelry would flip up after the household observed it was lacking, they mentioned.

However Pugh was stopped in her tracks when among the gadgets have been tracked right down to a gold gross sales store – however a lot of the jewelry was by no means recovered, Sara revealed.

Sneaky Pugh pleaded responsible to a single depend of Theft and was given 16 months suspended jail sentence at Swansea Crown Court docket.

Full-time carer Sara, from Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, mentioned: “She was my finest good friend – so after we first observed issues going lacking I used to be adamant it wasn’t Yasmin.

“The extra we began in search of issues, the extra we observed was lacking – however when she first denied it, I believed her.

“It isn’t a lot about the associated fee – she knew how sentimental these gadgets have been to us however she did not care.

“What is the worst factor is my nice aunt was completely oblivious to what was occurring behind the scenes and we’ve got needed to mislead her about why Yasmin needed to depart.

“I really feel completely heartbroken – not solely did we lose irreplaceable household jewelry, however my belief was completely betrayed by somebody I classed as a detailed good friend.”

Sara met Yasmin by means of work earlier than transferring away and dropping contact – however they rapidly grew to become shut once more when she returned to Llanelli in February.

She begged for assist from Sara, claiming she had no job and no cash to pay her lease – so Sara agreed to rent her to take care of Beryl, a number of days per week.

After beginning in June, Yasmin gave the impression to be thriving and Beryl, who’s blind, grew to become keen on her.

However quickly Sara’s mum, Lynne Reed, 62, went to dig out jewelry to put on for a marriage on July 20, which was when Lynne noticed her personal marriage ceremony and engagement rings have been lacking.

After scouring the home she realised the entire containers containing household jewelry have been empty – together with seven gold bracelets, an 18 carat gold pocket watch and a locket which contained {photograph}’s of Sara’s late brother and grandmother.

It was mind-blowing how a lot we had been betrayed – she had come to me to assist stroll the canine having been to the pawn store in secret simply hours earlier.

Sara Otter

£50 in money was additionally lacking from Sara’s five-year-old niece’s piggy financial institution – alongside greater than £200 in present playing cards which had been stashed in a drawer.

Sara mentioned: “Mum known as me to ask if I would borrowed them, which I clearly hadn’t – however after we thought-about that Yasmin might be accountable, I fully dismissed it.

“I used to be adamant it could not be her – she was a detailed good friend and we would been sort to offer her a job when she wanted one.

“I could not consider {that a} lady who had eaten from my desk would throw it again at me.”

However the increasingly more issues that went lacking, the extra they have been compelled to contemplate Pugh as a suspect.

As a lot as she did not need to consider it, Sara recalled issues weren’t including up – akin to in the future she got here spherical to her mom’s home to see Yasmin darting out of her niece’s bed room, she claims.

Pugh was arrested on August 2 after police traced receipts at an area pawn store displaying Yasmin had offered jewelry to the worth of £571.

Yasmin “crumbled” based on Sara, and confessed to the crimes after beforehand denying any wrongdoing.

Some gadgets have been tracked down and returned to the household – together with their treasured locket – however the merciless thief had binned the irreplaceable images from inside, she mentioned.

Greater than £15,200 price of stolen gadgets have been by no means positioned.

Sara mentioned: “It was mind-blowing how a lot we had been betrayed – she had come to me to assist stroll the canine having been to the pawn store in secret simply hours earlier.

“My mom had cried on her shoulder when she realised the jewelry was lacking, and Yasmin had comforted her, saying ‘Don’t fret, they will flip up’.

Yasmin was one in every of my finest buddies and she or he knew how a lot that jewelry meant to us so what she has finished is devastating.

Sara Otter

“Once I’d questioned her concerning the lacking gadgets, she’d recommended that my mom had misplaced them – in the meantime she knew precisely what had occurred.

Yasmin was sentenced at Swansea Crown Court docket and given a £250 nice, 200 hours of unpaid work and a compulsory rehabilitation course.

Sara mentioned: “It is disgusting to suppose Yasmin might have been sneaking round stealing issues whereas Beryl was within the room, as a result of she knew she would not be seen.

“Yasmin was one in every of my finest buddies and she or he knew how a lot that jewelry meant to us so what she has finished is devastating.”

Sara instructed how since Yasmin left, the household has now not been in a position to belief anybody else to tackle the function – that means Sara needed to depart her job to turn out to be Beryl’s full-time carer.

The household have additionally put in locks on each door in the home.

Sara mentioned: “We all know we cannot get the gadgets again so we’re devastated.

“She was able of belief and she or he took benefit of that – I am usually an excellent choose of character however she had me fooled.

“She knew how sentimental these gadgets have been to us however she did not care.

“I am dumbfounded by all of it – we’re heartbroken.”

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