Police officer fraudster spent £30k worth of orders and takeouts on vulnerable neighbour's card
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Police officer fraudster spent £30k worth of orders and takeouts on vulnerable neighbour's card.
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A police officer has been dismissed from duty after spending nearly £30,000 on supermarket orders and takeouts using his elderly neighbour's bank card.
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A disciplinary panel determined PC Gary Carson, of Merseyside Police, had committed gross misconduct - having exploited the vulnerable woman's trust over a three-year period between February 2020 and March 2023.The neighbour, who has since passed away, lived next door to Mr Carson on Heath Road South in Runcorn, Cheshire, and had become "smitten" with the officer, trusting him as her neighbour, the panel heard.Although the Crown Prosecution Service opted not to pursue criminal charges against Mr Carson, the misconduct panel concluded he had acted "dishonestly" and breached professional standards.
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