Widow forced to beg charity to pay for soldier husband’s funeral after fraudster lawyer conned him out life savings
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Widow forced to beg charity to pay for soldier husband’s funeral after fraudster lawyer conned him out life savings

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A widow had to go to a charity to pay for her soldier husband’s funeral after a fraudster who lied about being a lawyer conned him out of their life savings.Agnes Hewitt lied to army veteran George Ross that she would win him £500,000 from an employment dispute but ended up stealing more than £50,000 from him and demanded £10,000 more as he lay sick in hospital.And Hewitt also managed to con a couple of out £140,000 from their business - as she promised them millions from a legal case.The 63-year-old from Bellshill, Lanarkshire was last month jailed for three years following a trial in which she was found guilty of obtaining £192,649 by fraud between January 2012 and December 2018.But the impact on her victims from her scheming and fake claims of being a powerful lawyer can be revealed by the Sunday Mail.George’s wife Agnes Ross bravely contacted police when she overhead Hewitt on the phone to him in hospital asking for £10,000.The 69-year-old said: “He was crying down the phone to her saying ‘you’ve bled me dry.’“I knew something wasn’t right, I shouted on a nurse and told her to ring the police.“She took everything he had.“After he died I didn’t even have enough money to bury him.“I will never forgive that woman for what she did.

Not only did she rob us of our life savings, she robbed me of my husband. If she hadn’t put so much pressure on George, I believe he would still be here today.”Police later discovered Hewitt had cheated George, who’d been fighting dementia, out of £52,684.She told him an employment dispute he’d had with the Royal British Legion had settled for £501,000.But George, of Dalkeith, Midlothian, who left the army in 1993 and worked for the Legion for 25 years, died in 2019 before he could see justice

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