A callous daughter and her husband who put her elderly father in a care home, sold his house and plundered his life savings of £50,000, were jailed for three years and three months.
Fherisia Dougall and her husband David were both convicted of fraud on Friday after her father died in a care home where he had been abandoned. The case had been started at crown court in January 2020 but was adjourned when the defence applied to have the jury dismissed. Cecil died in June 2022 before the hearing resumed.
Fherisia Dougall, 57, and her husband, David Dougall, 59, trapped elderly Mr Coetzee in their home in Milton Keynes, Bucks, after convincing him that he should move in with them. At the time, Mr Coetzee had lived alone in South Africa where he was born, and his rapidly failing sight meant he became depressed and vulnerable.
The couple, who were in debt and financially struggling, tricked Mr Coetzee into transferring his life savings into their joint account by telling him they would open a bank account in his name after he settled in. They never did.
Instead they spent his life savings of £49,354 on themselves, as well as the £47,946 profits from the sale of his property in South Africa, which was also carried out without his consent or prior knowledge.
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