Jessica ThomasTwo sisters whose mother went from being her best friend to steal her inheritance of £ 50,000, they say they have become anxious and unable to trust anyone.
Katherine Hill, 53, from Alltwen in Pontardowe, Neath Port Talbot, and his 93 -year Fairwood Father Hill in Swansea were declared guilty of fraud for abuse of power after a trial last year.
They were sentence to 30 months in prison and a sentence of 12 Monh, suspended for 18 months, respectively. Mondays, [Katherine]Hill received the order to pay the money, which was left to his daughters Gemma and Jessica Thomas for his grandmother Margaret Hill.
“I will never have a relationship with my mother now,” Jessica said.
Swansea Crown Court listened to previously, due to inflation, the sum stolen by the “greedy and resentful” hills “now was worth approximately £ 65,000.
Katherine Hill put the money in an instant access saver account, although she is advised not to do so, and both dad had cards to access him, draining the content within a year.
Between March 2016 and March 2017, the account where the money was a hero was emptied in 10 withdrawals, with £ 35,000 retired only in three transactions, according to the court.
Gemma and Jessica grew up in Neath Port Talbot with their parents, and said Hill was a “good mother.”
“She was like my best friend,” Gemma said, now 26, added that “nobody saw this coming.”
She said that Hill did not have a good relationship with her own mother Margaret Hill, who separated from her father when Hill was a teenager, although the girls did not know why.
Family photoMargaret Hill died in 2014, while [Katherine] Hill was divorcing from the father of the girls, Chris Thomas.
At that time, Jessica was only 12 years old and did not tolerate the inheritance, but Gemma, who was 15 years old “understood a little more.”
The £ 50,000 were placed in a trustee with their mother as administrator, to access when they were 25 years old.
After divorce, the girls stayed with their mother for about six months, but they say that he would leave them for long periods of time while visiting his new boyfriend.
“I would start where she went to appointments and things. And I think she was at the perfect age of ‘My mother is coming out at night, I can have friends about’, and I was son of loving him for a while,” Gemma said.
“But he came to the point where he was happening every weekend and people hoped that he was not going to have a father at home, and I would say:” Please, will you stay at home this time? “
Thomas decided that his daughters would be better living with him, so the girls moved from his family home and with him, while Hill moved to his current partner, Phillip Lloyd.
Family photoThe sisters said that her mother sometimes took them out of the weekend, to a pub or McDonalds, but the conversation often focused around her father and her discomfort because they left.
“I think she could never overcome the fact that we were choosing to live with him,” Gemma said.
Jessica said she was “of course that we really maintain something very important to her.”
“I remember that when I came to see me on my 13th birthday, and I played for the day, saying that I had to leave early because I was dating [her boyfriend] and his family.
“It was as if she spent a lot of money on us … no 50 Grand’s, anyway.”
Jessica ThomasThey said, they look back, there were signs of extravagance of Hill and his partner, such as building a rear garden pub and a hydromassage bathtub, and going on vacation.
But nothing triggered the alarms, since Hill had also turned to his own mother.
Now, the girls said, they know they were really paying for their mother’s lifestyle.
It was when Gemma called her mother to ask him to access the money early, since he planned to buy his father’s house from his father, that the statements of the inheritance never existed.
She said her mother told her “money is not yours” and blocked her number, before claiming in the court she had generated through the girls mailbox.
Jessica, who is now a nurse, recalled the shock to discover that the money existed, and then immediately left.
“How can you cry something you never had? [also] She has stolen me or an opportunity that many people have no. “
She and her boyfriend currently live with her parents, and said that saving to move with her inheritance would take a long time.
Gemma said she was angry, and added that she seemed frustrating the more time she spent and the most hill.
She said that the initial confusion and pain were difficult, given her happy memories of her mother, and the woman she saw in court did not seem the same person.
“I will sit there and be like,” What happens if we are wrong? What happens if she has done it? “
“But I have to accept that she has done it.”
Gemma said that giving evidence in court was stressful, but relief arose more than feeling validated, than for money or prayers.
“When it is real it was the case that they sent it … it was as if they told us that they did not tell us that we are not crazy,” he said.
The girls said they saw people on social networks claiming that they were in prison with their mother and she “still said it was innocent.”
“And people would believe in it … that’s the most shocking thing for me,” Jessica said.
“I only thought that the relationship had begun to break before this, it could have a possible leg solved, while we are at that time now that we will never go to how we usually be.”
He added that his mother “had not shown remorse for anything he did.”
“She looked at me while we were standing, and I was shaking my head as if I were the only count,” he said.
“It’s as if he will never assume responsibility for what he has done.”
Family photoJessica said she had been going to advise for many years, to address “mass problems with trust”, while Gemma said she became “very needy in friendships.”
“[I thought] “If my mother doesn’t love me, who will love me?”
Now a mother for a two -month -old boy said he saw betrayal at a new level.
“I come home [after court] Monday and was feeding my son. I was looking at him, and he thought, he couldn’t spend 10 days, not even 10 hours really, without knowing how it was or what was happening in his life. It doesn’t matter the last 10 years.
“It makes no sense, all that is being lost.”
Jessica said she still lived and worked in the same area that her mother brought her anxiety and lived with a ICT, that a doctor told her that she has been caused by a trauma.
“Everything has had a massive effect on me, mentally and physically.”
He added that he did not know that they would have faced each other without the other, or his father, that he supported them emotionally and financially through the long legal process.
Now, with the result they, they hope you may see the money and “let this part of our lives go.”
They say they want to forget their mother, and the end of the processes of the court has brought a closing son, allowing them to “finally breathe.”
