Finance adviser conned pensioner out of £50k

A FINANCIAL adviser who stole more than £50,000 from a vulnerable, elderly woman has been jailed.

- ANDREW BARDSLEY

Winifred Hawthorn had no surviving family members when Daniel Williams began taking advantage of her.

Ms Hawthorn, who had worked as a radiographer, passed away before seeing justice.

A kindly neighbour who grew suspicious of Williams claimed that she had become 'scared' to remain at her home in Bury. She spent the last period of her life, aged in her early 80s, in a care home.

Williams, 55, from Didsbury, who said he had 'issues with gambling, alcohol, and prescription drugs, has now been jailed for two years and two months for fraud.