Swansea: Mum stole daughters’ £50,000 inheritance – court

Jessica said she was also “disgusted” by her grandfather’s actions.

“He’s just brushed me and my sister off like we don’t exist. To hear that is obviously hard but it speaks to his character.”

Matt Murphy, defending Katherine Hill, told the court she had no previous convictions and was trusted to oversee “thousands of accounts” in her previous role working in a high street bank.

Harry Dickens, on behalf of Gerald Hill, said his client was “not likely to reoffend, he is at the end of his life”.

Mr Dickens added: “He has no family that will speak to him. He is alone. He has no one.”

Addressing Katherine Hill, the judge said he was satisfied she was the instigator of the “scam” who was “so annoyed that your daughters received more money than you, that you took their inheritance”.

“You did it in greed and spite”, he said, adding she used the money “as a weapon against your own daughters”.

“I can’t imagine a more cynical breach of trust than this,” he said.

Hill kissed her father on the cheek before being sent down.