A 75-year-old man from Gloucestershire has been jailed after attempting to steal £2 million that was left to charity by an elderly friend who died of cancer.
Stewart Pearman had been friends with the woman he attempted to steal from for more than 25 years prior to her death from cancer in 2016 cancerStewart Pearman, 75, of Tewksebury, Gloucestershire, was jailed for five years and three months at Worcester Crown Court on Thursday.
The elderly woman, who had been friends with Pearman for more than 25 years before she died in 2016, had made him the main beneficiary and sole executor of her will. The lawyers not only discovered Pearman had himself penned the letter, but also learned from the deceased woman’s GP that she would not in fact have been of sound enough mind to have understood the letter at the time she was supposed to have signed it.
He added: ‘We hope this sentence sends a strong message that anyone seeking to take advantage of vulnerable people, particularly for financial gain, will be prosecuted.’
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