A care home in the British West Midlands has been investigated for a £175,000 ($233,600) document-fraud scheme that led to the use of illicit proceeds to fund a gambling habit.

The care facility, Amberley Care Home in Brierley Hill, is at the centre of a fraud case involving one of its elderly residents, Rita Barnsley.

Fake will was crafted to fund a gambling habit

The 85-year-old was preyed upon by a former manager of the care home, Jamiel Slaney-Summers, and her last will was found to be illegally forged.

When a buzzer went off in Rita’s room in January 2021, two care workers attended believing she needed help.

They were instead greeted by their manager Slaney-Summers who demanded they sign a document as witnesses – with a key section folded over.

That document was a sham will pic.twitter.com/szijTzRZKK

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Slaney-Summers worked alongside the owners of the care home, Graham and Lyn Walker, to alter the vulnerable elderly residents’ documents. This left Lyn Walker and Slaney-Summers as the sole beneficiaries of Mrs Barnsley’s estate.

In the release from Dudley Council, the tale of document tampering was described as a “sham” and “different handwriting and coloured pens used throughout (the document).”

The presiding Judge, the Honourable Judge John Butterfield KC, was vocal in referring to the fraud as “shocking” and “outrageous.” He commended the work of the Dudley Council Trading Standards Officers, Kuldeep Maan and Mark Beesley, for bringing the issue to the court.

Slaney-Summers sentenced

Both Maan and Beesley responded to a complaint lodged by one of Mrs Barnsley’s family, her cousin Verna. In hunting down the leads from the concerns raised, both investigators found that Slaney-Summers had been withdrawing money to fund a gambling habit.

The 65-year-old, according to the report, “took £6,...