Dying porter wanted to leave his life savings to the hospital that cared for him - he was betrayed by a greedy colleague

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

A greedy hospital office worker has escaped prison for fleecing £19,000 from the estate of a porter with no family who made her an executor of his will two days before he died of cancer.

Mother-of-two Kate Connelly, 41, who worked as a clerical officer at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, made a series of cash withdrawals to spend on herself, money that Ken Sutherland had stipulated go to the dementia and oncology wards at the hospital where he had worked as a much-loved porter and which had cared for him in his final days.

But today (Wednesday) debt-ridden Connelly sobbed in court as a judge spared her a jail sentence because of concerns about who would care for her 13-year-old son if she was jailed. READ MORE: Violent thugs held gun to dad's head before taking dog's eye out in terrifying burglary...

now they've been jailed Mr Sutherland regularly worked with Connelly and a cardio physiologist at the hospital, Nadine Angel-Hart, and when he became ill with cancer in November 2018 he made a will, stipulating he split his £166,000 estate between the oncology unit and the dementia ward.