A former health care assistant was told in court by a hospital cancer patient whose credit card she used that she felt “violated and vulnerable” by her “predatory and cruel crime”.
Mira Solmaz pleaded guilty to five counts of fraud and three counts of possession of articles for use in fraud Ms Longhurst, 65, who had worked in the NHS for more than 40 years, largely as a district nurse, delivered her own victim impact statement as Solmaz was sentenced. “She feared I would be a target for further crime whilst I was so vulnerable and meant to be cared for.”
“Nurses were apologising. They all felt under suspicion and sad for me and my family having to deal with that.Solmaz was seen dabbing away at tears as she sat in the dock. Hazel Longhurst was a cancer inpatient at St Bartholomew’s Hospital when her cards were fraudulently used by Mira Solmaz In regard to Mr Mallonee, the judge said: “The fact that he had to deal with this offence and the police while he was dying of cancer must have been profoundly distressing for him.”