Trainee financial adviser jailed for stealing parents' life savings

Spent more than £130,000

Victoria McKeever
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Melissa Humphreys has been given a three-year jail sentence for stealing £130,000 of her retired parents' savings while she was a trainee financial adviser.

According to the Independent, 33 year-old Humphreys stole her parents' life savings and used their credit cards to defraud them out of the £130,000. The police investigation was launched in 2010 but her trial did not begin until this year. Her retired parents, Elizabeth, 70, and Terence Fordham, 80, had been travelling around Europe in a motor home for four years after selling their home and paying off their debts. Humphreys, who was 21 years old and a trainee financial adviser at the time, was left in charge of their finances. The couple had nearly £55,000 in their savings account, w...

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