The family of a disabled Birmingham mother saddled with a £28,000 debt after her carer secretly re-mortgaged her home are hoping the bank will clear her debt.
Irene Simons was forced to begin repaying the loan taken out on her Acocks Green home by heartless Helen Bailey, who had been employed to care for her.
Bailey, 36, was jailed for 18 months on Friday after pleading guilty to a string of fraud charges.
Now Mrs Simons is hoping comments from the judge who jailed Bailey will convince the lenders to clear Irene of the £200-a-month payments and hand back the money she had already paid.
Police and the Crown Prosecution Service are to write to the Alliance & Leicester bank over the matter.
Mrs Simons, 62, suffers from syringomyelia, a muscle-wasting disorder that has slowly robbed her of her mobility.
As the mother of four required round-the-clock care she was granted control of the finances to arrange her own care and employed Bailey to look after her.
But Bailey “systematically” defrauded her. Over more than three years, she filed bogus timesheets, falsely claiming her husband Paul Bailey had helped to care for Mrs Simons – raking in £36,000.
Birmingham Crown Court also heard she secretly re-mortgaged Mrs Simon’s home for £27,835 in 2003, a loan which the bank still wants the disabled woman to pay off.
Bailey pleaded guilty to four counts of false accounting, obtaining a money transfer by deception and four counts of acquiring, using and possessing criminal property.
Her husband Paul Bailey, 38, avoided immediate jail for going along with the three-year fraud.
He was ordered to do 120 hours’ community service and given a one-year jail term, suspended for two years, after admitting possessing criminal property in the couple’s joint bank accounts.
