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   Company boss slammed by judge after he stole £300,000 from his elderly mother   
   with dementia and 'blithely' expected taxpayers to pick up the bill for her   
   care   
      
   By Joseph Curtis For Mailonline   
   21:02 11 Dec 2015, updated 11:47 12 Dec 2015   
   	   
      
   Man in his 60s from west London took £300,000 from pensioner mother   
   Court of Protection judge ruled he had abused power of attorney   
   Judge Denzil Lush granted application to revoke the power    
   The mother, in her 90s, suffers from dementia and cannot be identified   
   A company boss was slammed by a judge after he took £300,000 from his   
   dementia-sufferer elderly mother and 'blithely' expected taxpayers to pick up   
   the bill for her care.    
      
   He had exhausted his mother funds in order to meet his 'life's requirements',   
   Judge Denzil Lush said at the Court of Protection in London.   
      
   The judge added the man, who cannot be identified to protect his mother's   
   identity, had 'broken every rule in the book'.   
      
   Judge Denzil Lush, pictured, slammed an entrepreneur for his treatment of his   
   pensioner mother's finances	+4   
   Judge Denzil Lush, pictured, slammed an entrepreneur for his treatment of his   
   pensioner mother's finances   
   The judge revoked the man's power of attorney over his mother's affairs at the   
   Court of Protection, pictured   
   The judge revoked the man's power of attorney over his mother's affairs at the   
   Court of Protection, pictured   
   Judge Lush has criticised the man in a ruling following a hearing at the   
   court- where issues relating to sick and vulnerable people are analysed.   
      
   He said a lawyer should take control of the pensioner's financial affairs.   
      
   The judge said the pensioner, who had dementia and was in her 90s, could not   
   be identified.   
      
   He said the man was in his early 60s and lived in west London.   
      
   Judge Lush described him as an 'entrepreneur' who ran a company.   
      
   Social services staff at Surrey County Council had responsibility for the   
   pensioner's care - and had raised concerns about a 'deliberate deprivation of   
   assets', the judge said.   
      
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   The man had defended his behaviour and said his actions had not been   
   detrimental to his mother's welfare or counter to her wishes.   
      
   '(He) has behaved in a way that contravenes his authority and is not in the   
   (pensioner's) best interests,' said Judge Lush.   
      
   'He has broken virtually every rule in the book and, having exhausted his   
   mother's funds in order to meet his 'life's requirements at that time', he   
   blithely expects the taxpayers of Surrey to pick up the tab to meet his   
   mother's care needs now.'   
      
   The man disagreed and told the judge: 'I do not accept that I have acted in   
   any way that is detrimental to my mother's welfare or counter to her wishes.'   
      
   Judge Lush said the pensioner - whose husband had died in the 1980s - had   
   given her son a power of attorney over her affairs several years ago   
      
   The Court of Protection has revoked the businessman's power of attorney over   
   his pensioner mother	+4   
   The Court of Protection has revoked the businessman's power of attorney over   
   his pensioner mother   
   He said the case against the man had been outlined by a lawyer representing   
   from the Office of the Public Guardian - set up to protect people who might   
   not have the mental capacity to make certain decisions about health and   
   finance.   
      
   Barrister Rebecca Stickler had argued that the man had contravened his   
   authority and not acted in his mother's best interests.   
      
   She had told how the pensioner's house had been sold two years ago for nearly   
   £400,000.   
      
   The pensioner had been left with a profit of around £185,000 once the mortgage   
   had been paid off the man had withdrawn about £160,000 of that 'for his own   
   purposes'.   
      
   Before the house had been sold sums totalling more than £130,000 had been   
   transferred either to the man's account or to companies in which he had an   
   interest, the judge was told.   
      
   Surrey County Council social workers raised the alarm over the pensioner's   
   'deprivation of assets'	+4   
   Surrey County Council social workers raised the alarm over the pensioner's   
   'deprivation of assets'   
   The man had argued that he had done nothing wrong.   
      
   'I have acted upon her oft-repeated instructions to make sure that I was   
   reimbursed all of the moneys that I had lent or disbursed on her behalf during   
   the years since my father's death just as soon as her property was sold,' he   
   had said.   
      
   'I have discharged more than standard obligations with respect to my mother   
   and even paid some of her rest home fees out of my own funds in full knowledge   
   that these would be returned to me.'   
      
   He had gone on: 'Since I was entitled to the full amount remaining from the   
   sale of the property, I disbursed it as my life's requirements at that time.'   
      
   And he had added: 'I am my mother's only child and both executor and sole   
   beneficiary of her estate ... Had I elected not to sell the property when I   
   did, I would still be in receipt of all the net funds from it upon her death.'   
      
   Judge Lush granted an application by the office of the Public Guardian to   
   revoke the man's power of attorney and added: 'I agree entirely with the   
   submissions made by Rebecca Stickler.'   
      
      
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