Cancer nurse who told docs she was wealthy patient’s DAUGHTER in sick bid to steal £100k inheritance is struck off

A CANCER caregiver who pretended to beryllium a affluent patient's girl successful a sick bid to bargain £100,000 of his inheritance has been struck off.

Anita George befriended Ian Percival, a well-off businessman successful his 70s, aft gathering him 1 time portion helium was walking adjacent his home.

This little enactment led to a shocking concatenation of events that culminated successful allegations of fiscal grooming and neglect, and the NHS caregiver being struck disconnected the caregiver registry.

Ian, who worked arsenic an capitalist successful spot and an insurance broker, had seen the caregiver successful tears connected the promenade successful Swansea portion helium was with his canine Snowy, reports Sky News.

Part of Ian's enactment progressive renting homes to NHS unit locally, and conscionable 3 days aft gathering the seemingly trustworthy nurse, helium invited her into 1 of his properties to assistance look aft woman Margaret.

Ian and Margaret were joined for much than 50 years and were well-known and well-liked successful the Swansea area.

Margaret, who had mobility problems, would beryllium assisted by Anita successful the backstage arrangement.

Ian's children person spoken publically for the archetypal clip astir the saga, from their location successful Brisbane, Australia, with lad Richard saying helium felt Anita was dubious from the start.

As clip progressed, the couple's children became progressively acrophobic astir Anita's narration with their parents.

After Ian was diagnosed with cancer, the caregiver besides began caring for him.

Richard said: "She took implicit our parents' lives - she was perpetually with them."

The couple's lad described however Anita began overhauling the pair's beingness and besides began neglecting Margaret.

While girl Helen initially trusted Anita's nonrecreational credentials, she began to go suspicious successful the months earlier Ian's decease successful December 2016.

She claims Anita was refusing to instrumentality attraction of Margaret and was focusing each her attraction connected Ian instead.

Following their father's death, Helen and Richard became alert of the immense grade of Anita's engagement with Ian, feeling that she struck up an inappropriate idiosyncratic narration with their dada and manipulated him for fiscal gain.

While investigating themselves, they moved mum Margaret to unrecorded with them successful Australia - she aboriginal died determination successful 2018.

Richard explained that helium recovered immoderate grounds connected their dad's machine astir Anita and began to look further into it.

They recovered that Ian had fixed the caregiver astir £15,000 successful currency and shares, a car, and had near her a property worthy hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Helen recalled however disgusted she felt astatine discovering her dada was "financially groomed" by Anita and that this realisation lone came aft the volition was read.

While Anita said she was simply receiving gifts from a friend, it was revealed she had listed herself arsenic his next of kin, and adjacent arsenic his girl and adoptive girl connected Ian's medical records.

She had done each of this without Ian's woman oregon children knowing.

Helen added she felt "devastated" by the information that Anita was managing Ian's hospital appointments, taking his bloods astatine home, and accessing aesculapian instrumentality portion pretending to beryllium his daughter.

Ian's household person taken 8 years to execute immoderate signifier of justness for what happened to them.

Anita was recovered to person breached nonrecreational standards and abused her presumption of spot arsenic a registered caregiver to summation inheritance from a patient, successful a proceeding into the allegations by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) successful December past year.

It ruled that she had motivated by the pursuit of fiscal summation and unleashed its toughest authorisation connected Anita - having her struck disconnected the nursing register.

The NMC's report outlines however Ian and Margaret's isolation and mediocre health, arsenic good arsenic their geographical separation from their children, made them peculiarly vulnerable.

Anita's ineligible squad argued during the proceeding that these events had happened extracurricular of her ceremonial employment arsenic a caregiver and that it was improbable to hap again arsenic she is present married.

'HORRIBLE' THING TO HAPPEN TO A 'GENUINE HARD-WORKING GUY'

Swansea Bay University Health Board, which runs the hospital, said it is present carrying retired a review into immoderate imaginable failures.

A spokesperson for the committee told The Sun: "In airy of the findings of the NMC’s proceeding we are appalled, and privation to authorities intelligibly to the household that we’re precise atrocious astir what happened.

“We volition beryllium reviewing this lawsuit to spot if determination are immoderate learnings that request to beryllium taken into account.

“It is important, however, to clarify that the inappropriate fiscal relationships did not subordinate to attraction provided wrong an NHS context."

They added: "While we cannot remark successful item connected this circumstantial lawsuit - arsenic determination remains diligent confidentiality issues - we tin accidental that our wide attack to identifying adjacent of kin focuses connected pursuing the wishes, wherever possible, of the patient.

“We are not capable to remark connected unit disciplinary matters.”

South Wales Police carried retired an investigation astatine the clip but nary charges were brought guardant - but it confirmed it would re-open the lawsuit if caller lines of enquiry were found.

Cases of fiscal exploitation of the aged person been connected the emergence successful caller years, with charity Hourglass saying it has seen a 182% emergence successful calls since 2017.

Ian's children are hopefully that constabulary volition re-open the lawsuit but besides privation tougher rules connected however carers tin go progressive with patients.

At present, nurses person to adhere to the NMC's nonrecreational standards, which includes acting with "honesty and integrity" successful immoderate fiscal dealings.

Richard expressed alleviation that Anita was struck disconnected pursuing the NMC's damning report, saying: "You can't person idiosyncratic doing what she did - utilizing her presumption arsenic a nurse...to summation their trust."

Both Richard and Helen consciousness Anita tarnished the extremity of their father's beingness for them, with the erstwhile saying neither of his parents deserved to endure this benignant of abuse.

He said: "Dad was a genuine hard-working feline who loved his household - It's conscionable horrible."