A daughter has admitted stealing £179,000 ($335,952) from her parents after they sold their home and took a trip of a lifetime.
Melissa Humphreys, 33, abused her parents' trust after they left their finances in her hands and she blew their hard-earned cash on a shopping spree.
While travelling around Europe in a motor home, her parents discovered they could not withdraw cash from their accounts and an investigation was launched, the Daily Mail reported.
Their trip was cut short in 2010 as they discovered that their daughter had emptied their bank accounts, maxed out credit cards and even taken more credit cards out in their name.
Humphreys appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court on Friday where she admitted 12 counts of fraud using MBNA credit cards, and one count of obtaining property by deception, using the same type of card, in 2006.