'An immense sense of betrayal': Woman who stole over €40,000 from former GP she was caring for jailed for two years
File photo Image: Shutterstock/Grzejnik File photo Image: Shutterstock/Grzejnik A WOMAN WHO stole the proceeds of the sale of a retired GP’s surgery when she was working as the victim’s carer has been jailed for two years.
Gojak stole €41,380 over five years by making ATM withdrawals, using the woman’s laser card to purchase items and getting cash back at points of sale. She regularly transferred funds from this deposit account to the woman’s current account to allow her easy access to the money. She said the crime was deceitful, cruel and callous. She said she has not been to able to secure a new carer since Gojak’s theft came to light and she has had to move into a nursing home.
“It was such an upheaval at this stage of my life. It will stay with me to the end of my days,” the woman concluded her statement. She said the victim had raised those funds from “a lifetime of hard work” and the sale of a GP practice and noted that “she was left in financial insecurity as a result of what was taken from her”.
Greally also acknowledged that Gojak had experienced difficulties in her past, noting that she had come to Ireland from war-torn Bosnia and accepted that some mental health issues were identified in a probation report before the court.
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