A Mosgiel woman swindled her ailing father and intellectually disabled brother out of $65,000 while she was supposed to be caring for them. Her father, before he died in August 2015, told one of his sons he suspected she was stealing from him but the son convinced him she would never do that. When he died, the truth came out. Judith Gale McMahon (52) appeared before the Dunedin District Court this week, after admitting three representative counts of theft. She had been granted interim name suppression until this week’s sentencing, when Judge Michael Crosbie refused an application to keep her identity under wraps permanently.
