An Auckland woman has been sentenced to 10 months home detention after admitting stealing $120,000 from her father who had dementia. Carolyn Diane Alleyne, 65, pleaded guilty in April to five representative charges of theft by a person in a special relationship. She was sentenced at the Manukau District Court on Tuesday. Alleyne fleeced money from her father Ron Greenhalgh, 95, a World War II veteran who died on Father’s Day 2016. She had paid the court $120,000 in reparation which would be given to her brother, Michael Greenhalgh. Judge Mina Wharepouri said Alleyne systematically stole money from her ill father to fuel her lifestyle. “That included a gambling habit which was satisfied through your use of the TAB,” he said. “Your offending only came to light when your actions resulted in there being insufficient money in his account.” The insufficient funds meant her father could not pay for ongoing costs at Metlifecare where he was cared for, the judge said. Alleyne then removed her father from care and he stayed at her Pakuranga home. He was later admitted to hospital with deteriorating health where he eventually died. “You had a duty of care. Instead of applying his funds for his benefit as you should have done, much of his money was in fact misapplied by you,” Judge Wharepouri said. Michael Greenhalgh described his sister as “cold, callous, heartless and cruel”.
June 27, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by St Vincent’s Private Hospital for its St Vincent’s Private Hospital Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been approved.
June 27, 2017
The Health Services Union and the Department of Health and Human Services have a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Deputy President Hamilton in Court 4 & Conference Room C – level 6 in Melbourne today.
June 27, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Lifehouse Australia as trustee for Lifehouse Australia Trust T/A Lifehouse Australia for its Lifehouse Nurses Agreement 2017 has been granted by Commissioner Gregory in Melbourne on 26 June 2017.
June 27, 2017
A prison crime ring has been busted smuggling in drugs, tech gear and tobacco via old folks’ home laundry. Jail authorities made the shock discovery last week in piles of soiled laundry from aged care facilities, which is cleaned by inmates at Port Phillip Prison. Phone chargers, USB sticks, balloons suspected of containing drugs and pouches of tobacco were uncovered during a search of linen and garments. They had been brought in via trucks from aged care homes around Melbourne. The laundry is cleaned under contract by the prisoners.
June 27, 2017
Sonic HealthPlus Pty Ltd T/A Sonic HealthPlus has had its Sonic HealtPlus Enterprise Agreement 2017 approved.
June 26, 2017
A single mum has been spared jail despite admitting distributing an indecent video of a two-year-old girl and a man she was ‘disgusted’ by. Care worker Gloria Owusu was sent the video clip in May last year and sent it on to relatives and friends over the next eight months. Owusu also shared a picture of an eight-year-old girl standing naked in a field – but claimed she not did think this was indecent as ‘children often walk around naked’ in the village she was from in Ghana. The 45-year-old, who works part-time in a residential care home for the elderly, was arrested when she showed her colleague the video and it was seen by a visitor. She pleaded guilty to two offences of possessing and distributing indecent images but was spared jail after Judge Zoe Smith gave her a 10 month suspended sentence.
June 26, 2017
Tomorrow Carolyn Diane Alleyne will be sentenced in the Manukau District Court after pleading guilty to six representative charges of theft by a person in a special relationship. When World War II veteran Ron Greenhalgh died on Father’s Day last year, he had nothing but the second-hand clothes on his back, after his daughter stripped him of his life savings and spent them. When Greenhalgh, 95, was admitted to a resthome with dementia, he had a home and significant savings at the end stages. Mike Greenhalgh says he feels betrayed after his sister Carolyn Diane Alleyne stole his fathers’ life savings while he had dementia. By the time he died, his daughter had allegedly spent about $250,000 of his money at the TAB and to maintain her own lifestyle, leaving him with barely enough to pay for his funeral.
