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Care home boss is jailed over £175,000 will plot
Birmingham Mail
|December 06, 2025
MANAGER COLLUDED WITH OWNERS TO GET HOLD OF LATE RESIDENT'S ESTATE
A CRUEL care home manager who plotted with her bosses to get hold of an elderly woman's £175,000 fortune by "forging" her last will and testament has been locked up.
Manager Jamiel Slaney-Summers, along with care home owners Graham Walker and Lyn Walker, "exploited" 85-year-old Rita Barnsley while she lived at Amberley Care Home, in Brierley Hill.
They penned a "sham" will in "different coloured pens" and with "different writing" in a heartless bid to pocket her finances after her death.
Slaney-Summers, 65, and Lyn Walker, 71, were named as executors of the will.
Care home staff were left £5,000 in the "fraudulent" document even though a policy was in place prohibiting employees from receiving gifts from residents.
"Vulnerable" Ms Barnsley also lost about £6,000 when Slaney-Summers secretly made withdrawals from her account using her bank card.
This story is from the December 06, 2025 edition of Birmingham Mail.
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