46-year-old Julie Brown, a former care home manager who stole hundreds of pounds from a vulnerable resident’s bank account, has been handed a 32-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months.
Brown, of Slade Road in Ryde, pleaded guilty to 1 count of theft when she appeared in front of the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court earlier this month, as previously reported by Island Echo.
The former acting manager of Stoneleigh Care Home in Shanklin re-appeared before the same court for sentencing this afternoon (Friday), where Magistrates slapped her with a suspended sentence – despite being told she would go to prison the last time she appeared in court.
It comes just 4 years after Brown appeared at the Isle of Wight Crown Court and was found guilty of theft and false accounting. She was handed an 8-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, after stealing £3,500 from the National Passenger Transport Sports Association. In 2001, Brown was also convicted of theft after stealing scratchcards from a shop she worked at.
In this latest case, between 12th-22nd May 2022 Brown stole the bank card and pin number of 1 of the residents in her care and took nearly £1,500 in cash withdrawals, namely 6 withdrawals of £250. The card and PIN were locked in a safe that Brown had access to.
The 46-year-old had only been working at the care home for 3 weeks when the offences were committed.
Brown was caught when the victim – who has severe mental health issues – realised funds were missing after looking at her bank statement on 9th June.
Using CCTV footage from cash points locally, Police were able to confirm Brown had withdrawn the cash, which led to her arrest at home the next day. She admitted that she had been expecting the Police to come to her address.
Magistrates today sentenced Julie Brown to 32 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months, and ordered her to complete 25 rehabilitation days as well as paying £85 costs and a £128 surcharge. The bench ordered Brown to also pay £75 in compensation having previously heard that £1,425 of the £1,500 has been recovered.
Absolute S c u m b a g
One hopes that any kith and kin of the victim feels that justice is done and have no need to trace this vile thing
Clearly ‘care workers’ are not always ‘caring’ and the lowest of the low can find employment IF this thing was at manager level.
Companies who employ such low life dregs need to be sued for millions if the courts can no longer jail our own low life because prisons are too full of imported even worse scum.
slade Road hasn’t lost its reputation I see, as it still houses rydes s cumbags
Cover her in salt, kills all slugs.
ps what’s a cum bag, shame her father was not wearing one when she was conceived.
Atleast she can afford smokes while the vunerable residents were robbed,what a joke
Should have been 32 years not suspended
Disgusting ugly obese slug.
Oh please don’t insult the slug !!!!
Thieving scumbag dirtbag etc yes definitely but don’t insult the slug it is far better than this blob ….lol…..
Who stole its disgusting Neck??….that ugly lump will get old one day, and hopefully get some of it’s own medicine…
What absolute scum , one of rydes finest shining brightly
These scum are just not in Ryde they are everywhere.
Where oh where is the deterrent element to this sentence, for this thief , a repeat offender. Immediate remand in custody , sent to crown court with a recommendation of a custodial sentence. 5 years would be appropriate. Then at least the victims of her offending would have been protected. How many ‘offences’ has she got away with.
Couldn’t agree more should be locked away not suspended sentenced, the law is an ass as soomeone said.
this is not justice anymore
NO MORE CAKE FOR YOU…….slime ball.
Does this person have any redeemable qualities? There’s a deviousness to this crime that I hate.
DBS was on the ball then. she looks like scum
How did she pass the DBS check!!!!
You ask a very fair question.
She looks revolting and is no good to anyone
Truly bizarre.
I wonder what details are missing to explain this lenient sentence, and as to how she could have got this job in the first place.
What a vile pile of crap ,visually and mentally
If you want to commit murder do it on the IOW – you’ll get a suspended sentence at the most!!
Should of locked her up discussing
Who are you discussing it with?
How did she get the job!! Bet she is working in another nursing home in a couple of weeks/
What a disgrace, only 1 place for people like this.
Seriously a, Suspended sentence!!!!
She should be suspended, from a great height….
Thieving scumbag, the people she stole from are vulnerable and don’t deserve to be treated like this…..
Our judicial system really needs a major overhaul…..
Hope karma strikes one day very soon !!!
Evil pure evil…..
The justice system – what an absolute joke. A serial thief who has no desire to reform escapes incarceration yet again. How she must be laughing.
Sickening.
I do have some sympathy for her !! Obviously looking at her photos she was starving and what with the price of cigarettes she had no other options ?? .. Really she is just a scum Bag that has proven twice now that she can’t be trusted !!
Alas that’s probably only what it the scumbag has been caught for !!!
Definitely not human or animal ,
Scumbag slime ball dirtbag new genre for thing’s like this ……
Wouldn’t p— on it if it was on fire …
3 times
YES – and given 2 x previous, HOW did she pass a DBS?
Doesn’t this highlight how pathetic our magistrates court is? Truly abysmal.
Put your money where your mouth is and volunteer to be a magistrate, then you can put them all in prison.
However, I believe if she was a he, the sentence wouldn’t have been suspended.
Can’t believe the lenient sentence after she was told by the judge she would go to prison if she did it again! What is wrong with the system this is unbelievable!
The system can NO longer jail people because our prisons are filled to bursting with even worse cretins from all corners of the globe now.
NO politicians dare say the reason we have to have feeble sentence now, the race card has become more powerful than the law. Fact.
SPOT ON, WELL SAID.
The prisons are full. Why not create jobs and build a few more
Then justice can be done.
Why did they close Camp Hill?
To have gone on record saying that, and for it not to be done just makes the system look ridiculous.
How did this lady get a DBS
Sorry Claire but I think your being very kind calling her a # lady there are thousands of words to call it but lady not one of them
DBS check isn’t worth a light, after a very short time, “spent” convictions are removed from you record.
https://www.gov.uk/request-copy-criminal-record
That is for a basic DBS, she should have had a enhanced DBS check working in a care home which should have shown up her past history
Claire, one doubts the DBS was obtained by charm, or sleeping with the suppliers of such.
What I find even more disgusting is the sentence.
It is NOT just the amount of money, but the fact that all those ‘it’ robbed, and their families will now be afraid to have ‘another’ care worker in their home for fear of the same thing happening again.
Like any victim of crime, trust is lost, not just money.
And imagine if you have an elderly parent, robbed in their own home by someone ‘pretending’ to care for them. THINK about it, you would feel guilty not seeing the risk, and they would never again feel safe in their own home
Totally true, I know of a blind victim of similar. It destroyed his last shreds of confidence.
Blimey – who would want to sleep with that?
Seriously needs to be investigated IMO
Cant wait to see her in the street and ruin her
Usual apologies of a sentence. From our justices,, who always care for the guilty.
How do you get a job working with vulnerable people when you have a criminal record?
And why does she keep getting suspended sentences? How many ‘second chances’ do people get?
Well said
Just looking back at her previous trial 4 years ago, she never even had to repay the £3,500 that she stole – no repayment, no compensation to those she stole from. And she was told “If you are tempted to steal, please do not. As the next time you are here it will be a custodial sentence”
What a farce.
So much for security checks when working with the vulnerable, those who employed her should be questioned especially as she had a police record. Or better still the security checks need to be checked to find out how she slipped through the net.
A thing that big don’t slip through a net ,,ha ha prob got friends in the same area of work that vouch for it ,stupidity at its best
How did this vile creature slip through the net . I would question how she slipped through the net with the DBS check if checks were ever completed .
The sad reality is she cauld set herself up as a private carer on the Island ,what a terrifying thought .
I do believe in Karma so hopefully it’ll come back and bite you hard .
It’s wearing a wedding ring. Assuming that it is hers and not stolen, It’s husband must be so proud.
state of it.
utter scumbag and just a slap on her fat thieving wrist! disgusting
That care home didn’t protect their residents by allowing a repeat offender to be employed Obviously didn’t address the appropriate forums to ensure the safety of the vulnerable residents They need investigating too as their protocols are lacking Shame on them too
Very well said
Good the low life has been found out
I wonder how many more poor souls she theived from and didn’t get found out …
Scum bag
Why did she only get 32 weeks in prison she will only come out and steal again wish her fucking fingers would fall off
She didn’t get anytime injaii
Nasty individual who will be back in court, these people never learn or change..
Sadly there is no Justice system.
For what she has done, I am not only disgusted at her, but also her employers for not Police checking her for dealing with vulnerable people. The sentence does not fit the crime either but that is not unusual lately with the justice system.
That’s a disgrace. Those people won’t get their money/belonging back and all she gets is a slap on the wrist
There’s far too much of this sort of thing going on
She’s really not very good at this criminal lark, is she?
she should have been locked up for 32 years
Yet owe one pound sterling in Council Tax and the authorities inform you it is their right to send bailiffs, and send you to prison. This has happened to friends of mine who were given the wrong bill by the council. When it turned out the council actually owed my friends money, they had to wait six months for it without apology. Our country is properly broken.