This shocking footage captures the moment a trusted carer steals cash out of the handbag of a vulnerable pensioner.
Leila Denton was caught red-handed on a hidden camera installed by the suspicious relatives of frail Irene Houston after the widow’s sons began to notice money missing from her purse.
Tragically, Mrs Houston, who had infections and diabetes among other ailments, fell seriously ill in the weeks following the theft and passed away at the age of 79.
The disturbing CCTV lasts for almost a minute and shows 20-year-old Denton looking anxiously for signs of anyone coming as she sits down in a chair and rifles through Mrs Houston’s handbag.
David Kelly, one of Mrs Houston’s sons, installed the fingernail-sized device on a chair leg at his mother’s warden-controlled maisonette in Kearsley, Bolton.
VIDEO: Carer caught red-handed by hidden camera stealing money from pensioner