Nicole Speirs went on a four-month spending spree. Photo / Facebook
Nicole Speirs went on a four-month spending spree. Photo / Facebook
A shameless fraudster stole her grandmother's £22,000 ($38,700) life savings and blew it on a hot tub, a sex toy and a drone.
Nicole Speirs went on a four-month spending spree after stealing 78-year-old Pearl Williams' bank details, the Daily Mail reported.
The 26-year-old splurged the cash on a £373 hot tub, a £443 remote-controlled drone, a £200 iPad mini and a vibrating sex toy that set her back £24.99.
Speirs also shelled out on hundreds of pounds worth of clothes and jewellery during the spree between January 16 and May 25 last year, reports Scotland's Daily Record.
The fraudster was only caught when Williams went to the bank to withdraw the money but was left devastated when she was told the account had been emptied.
Disgusted relatives got involved and Speirs, from Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow, was charged by police and last week admitted defrauding her elderly grandmother of £22,416.
A source said: "What an utterly terrible thing to do to a defenceless old lady - and her own grandmother as well.
"Pearl has been more than generous to Nicole her whole life, doing anything she could to help her.
"That Nicole has repaid her like this is just disgusting - the lowest of the low."
Speirs also shelled out on hundreds of pounds worth of clothes and jewellery during the spree. Photo / via Facebook
It is understood Williams is now on holiday in Portugal with a relative as she tries to come to terms with the callous theft.
Luckily, one of Williams' family members negotiated with the bank and got her life savings back - but it is not known what Speirs did with the goods she bought with the illicit cash.
Williams, who will be 80 next year, "crumbled" when she realised her granddaughter had plundered her savings.
Williams and Speirs, who admitted fraud at Glasgow Sheriff Court last week, were said to be close.
The charge against her detailed how between January 16 and May 25, 2016, she "formed a fraudulent scheme to obtain goods.
"You did, having an account with Amazon, repeatedly order goods and tender as a means of payment a bank card or details of a bank card to be debited which was in the name of Pearl Williams, 78, your grandmother.
"You did not have authority to use her card or account. You did obtain goods to the value of £22,416 by fraud."
She will be sentenced on August 29. When asked about the conviction, Speirs said her life was in pieces.
