Son posed as his dead mum to con £56k from his grieving father
- 9 months ago
This is the moment a lowlife son put on a female voice and posed as his dead mum to swindle £56,000 from his grieving father.
Daniel Cuthbert, 42, drained his dad’s life savings over a 14-month period between 2017 and 2018.
He moved large sums of money, including his father’s entire redundancy pay-out, into his own account.
Cuthbert made repeated telephone banking calls pretending to be his father, Preston Crown Court heard.
On at least nine occasions he called to make transfers while putting on a woman's voice and pretending to be his mother who had died months earlier.
Audio footage released by Northamptonshire Police captured Cuthbert speaking in a posh female voice telling the call-handler: "I'd like to make a payment please."
He goes on to talk through security questions before saying he wants to make a £150 payment to the account of D W Cuthbert - his own account.
Daniel Cuthbert, 42, drained his dad’s life savings over a 14-month period between 2017 and 2018.
He moved large sums of money, including his father’s entire redundancy pay-out, into his own account.
Cuthbert made repeated telephone banking calls pretending to be his father, Preston Crown Court heard.
On at least nine occasions he called to make transfers while putting on a woman's voice and pretending to be his mother who had died months earlier.
Audio footage released by Northamptonshire Police captured Cuthbert speaking in a posh female voice telling the call-handler: "I'd like to make a payment please."
He goes on to talk through security questions before saying he wants to make a £150 payment to the account of D W Cuthbert - his own account.