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A financial advisor embezzled £212,000 after being trusted with the fortune of an elderly Scots widow as she battled dementia, a court heard.
Gordon Couch, 56, was given power of attorney over the affairs of frail Marjorie Stewart who went into an Edinburgh nursing home.
He was later made executor of her estate after Marjorie died aged 91, leaving a will instructing cash be paid to various charities and relatives.
Couch - who was battling personal debt problems - is accused of taking huge sums from the estate while beneficiaries received nothing.
He went on trial at Edinburgh Sheriff Court after pleading not guilty to a charge of embezzling the money over a six year period.
Fiscal depute Jack Caster read a joint minute of agreed facts, telling the jury how Marjorie grew up in Aberdeenshire before moving to Kenya with her husband where they lived for four decades.
Marjorie, a retired maths teacher, moved back to Edinburgh before her husband’s death in 1998, and the couple employed Couch as an independent financial advisor.
Couch, who ran his own Edinburgh-based firm called Utopia Financial Planning, was granted power of attorney over Marjorie’s finances.
She had been hospitalised after a fall in January 2012 and was found to have a host of medical issues, including heart disease and “cognitive impairment”. A doctor ruled Marjorie was “incapable” of making financial decisions due to dementia.
The court heard Couch was an executor following Marjorie’s death in September 2013. Her will included bequests to nephews and nieces alongside donations to charities, including Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation, along with £3000 for her house cleaner.
Mr Caster confirmed “to date no funds have been dispersed to any of
Police are hunting a gang of reckless yobs who left a woman hurt after throwing a metal trolley from a shopping centre car park in Edinburgh.
A financial advisor embezzled £170,000 from an elderly Scots widow who battled dementia by charging her up to £1000 a day to read bank statements to her.
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