A DAUGHTER who conned her elderly mother out of cash that was later needed to buy a mobility scooter has avoided jail.
Catherine Peart, 50, persuaded her 87-year-old mother Janet Nixon that she would keep £9,000 of her money for her.
The pensioner had closed an old bank account and was going to keep the cash in her own home.
A couple of years on, in 2014, when Mrs Nixon decided to buy an electric scooter and asked her daughter for the cash back, she claims she was told to “take it out her own bank”.
Peart, a frequent online gambler, did eventually return the money - but only initially £6,900.
Eventually she repaid the shortfall that she “diddled away”.
At Glasgow Sheriff Court, Peart, from Riddrie, Glasgow, pleaded guilty to embezzling £9,000 from her mother.
Today, sheriff John McCormick handed her a community payback order with the condition she will be supervised for 18 months.
He said she should attend gamblers anonymous if directed by her supervising officer, and she will be tagged for four months, to stay at her home between 7pm and 7am.
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