A 57-YEAR-OLD man jailed for 20 months after stealing his widowed mother’s £67,600 savings when she sold her home had served five months in prison, a judge heard.
Judge Rhys Rowlands at Caernarfon crown court made a £2,200 confiscation order against Dennis Davies and ruled the benefit had been £67,641.
Davies, who pleaded guilty to theft from Keturah Lewis, aged 76, between December 2014 and August 2017, had been sentenced in March.
Barrister Elen Owen, representing him at a proceeds of crime hearing, said he was released on September 6.
Davies’s available assets were a £2,000 Ford Fiesta and a £200 number plate.
The victim’s life-savings, which had been paid into her son’s spare bank account, were “systematically taken from her,” a judge had said previously.
Davies was carer for his wife and he also had health issues, the sentencing court heard.
Davies, of Y Waun, Harlech, had transferred £14,000 to buy a new car which had a personalised number plate.
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