A carer has been sentenced to one-and-a-half years in prison after stealing almost $27,000 from a blind 103-year-old Perth woman. Michelle Bronwyn Kotukutuk Stirling had been employed by a professional care provider to look after the vulnerable elderly woman, who is legally blind and partially deaf, at her Mount Lawley home. The District Court in Perth was told the victim had grown to trust Stirling, 52, and had given her the PIN number to her bank account so she could go shopping for her. But Stirling unlawfully accessed the account 76 times between December 2012 and February 2015. In total, she took $26,963. District Court Judge Ronald Birmingham rejected a submission by Stirling’s lawyer to suspend her sentence.
