Nigerian Home Care Worker Jailed For Pinching Residents’ Money

A UK court has convicted Abiola Akinremi, a care home employee from Nigeria, to seven months in prison for stealing money from almost all of the residents’ of her facility.

The mother of three was charged with using her position as administrator at Bostall House in southeast London’s Abbey Wood to make scores of unlawful transfers from patients’ bank accounts.
The prosecution team claims that some of the inmates of the facility are institutionalized in accordance with the Mental Health Act, and those without family support cede control of their finances to administrators and carers.

According to police investigations, Ms. Akinremi began robbing homeowners to pay for childcare and then kept doing it to “finance her own lifestyle”.

People who reside at the home are all at risk, have a variety of problems, and are detained pursuant to the Mental Health Act or other laws, the prosecutor Robert Levack told the court of the 24-hour care facility.

Without a member of the staff or a family member, they are not permitted to leave Bostall House.
Some people have the home handle their financial matters.

In November 2018, when questions regarding Akinremi’s actions surfaced, investigators were called in.
Bank accounts belonging to locals were missing $43,000, including $32,000 from one victim.

The way cash and money were handled on behalf of the home’s residents wasn’t up to par, according to Levack. Akinremi insisted that other members of the home’s staff were attempting to “pin the blame” on her when she was still denying fraud on the first day of her trial. She eventually confessed taking £19,650 from three residents over the course of eight months, but she still maintains that other people at the facility were also involved in wrongdoing.

As proof of the culpability of other staff was presented by the defence which claimed that money was taken from the residents at periods when Akinremi was on vacation. Her attorney, Ranjeet Dulay, asserted, “Ms Akinremi is only accountable for her own conduct.”

Dulay claimed that the administrator was depressed at the time the fraud started and wanted money for daycare. She proceeded to engage in what started off as an opportunistic offense, she said in her plea following the conviction over the pinching of money from the residents by the home care worker.

After being fired from Bostall House, Akinremi began working at another care facility. According to Ms Dulay, she has been “trying to make amends and put into the type of community that she took from.”

A request for a deferred prison sentence was denied by Judge Rafferty, who came to the conclusion that only an immediate jail sentence would be acceptable. Akinremi, an Essex resident from Tilbury, entered a guilty plea to three counts of fraud by abuse of position.

Akinremi was given a seven-month prison sentence by the presiding judge, Angela Rafferty KC, who said: “This was a repeated and planned course of behaviour, and a very significant violation of trust of vulnerable persons.”

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