Thefts from Inverness pensioners sees woman jailed
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A woman targeted two Inverness pensioners, pretending to one she was a carer.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard Stephanie Rennie (28) told a 65-year-old woman at her home in the city's St John's Avenue that she was a carer when she visited her on August 7.
She told her she could be evicted because she was in arrears with her rent.
Depute fiscal Fiona Murray said: "She sat in the living room and said she had rent arrears and asked for her bank card so she could pay for the arrears otherwise she could be evicted. She gave her the card."
Fortunately the fiscal said woman gave her the wrong PIN number for the card and Rennie of Rowan Road, Inverness, was unable to access her account.
In another incident on July 15 last year at Ord Terrace, Inverness, Rennie visited a 67-year-old man she had once helped after he had a fall.
The fiscal said Rennie walked into the man's home and offered to sell him cigarettes.
He declined the offer but the fiscal said Rennie stole sums of money and a packet of cigarettes which were lying on his couch.
Rennie admitted both charges of theft and further charges of breach of bail and threatening behaviour as well as theft of a handbag from a shop in High Street, Inverness last year.
She was sentenced to 38 weeks in prison.
