Woman jailed for defrauding aunt out of 300k to build gym

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  • Margaret Cassidy stole a total of £317,475 from 89-year-old Elizabeth Murphy.
  • She used most of the money to convert the disused former St Kenneth's Church.
  • Cassidy even pretended to be a legal secretary to help scam £90,000 of gym equipment.
  • She has been jailed for two-and-a-half years at Glasgow Sheriff Court.Murphy inherited the money after her husband died in 2019.
  • She said: "I trusted her to deal with things at the bank but I never gave her permission to get money"
The court heard Cassidy also spent 2,400 on a council tax bill; 2,200 on artificial grass at her business partners home; 1,300 at designer tailors Forbes; and 800 at Glasgows Corinthians casin [+1 chars]

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