A mum conned her son out of £400,000 after he was awarded nearly £2million compensation for a car crash which left him brain damaged.
Michael Wright, now 28, received the medical payout following a crash in June 2007 which left him with a life changing head injury and reduced mental capacity.
But Teresa Wright, appointed a Deputy to manage his financial affairs, spent the money on a caravan and weekends away and gave cash handouts to her other children.
The compensation was paid into a bank account administered by the Court of Protection.
Each time his mother would have to fill in paperwork for the court which would then hand the money over.
But in September 2012, she took a six-figure sum for herself.
Wright, of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, denied swindling her son, and claimed all the money was spent at his request.
But she was convicted of fraud by abuse of position and was jailed at Luton Crown Court for five years.
Speaking after sentencing, Mr Wright, of Upper Dean, Cambridgeshire, said: ‘She has had more than enough chances to hand everything back.
‘She got what she deserves. This has put an end to it. I can start afresh and put it to bed.’
It was uncovered in 2013 when Mr Wright’s condition improved and he took control of the compensation bank account.
Mr Wright discovered his mother had requested the money be withdrawn.
The money was moved between accounts and ended in her own by October 2012.
Police discovered she had withdrawn large sums in cash, handing money over to her other children and spending more than £100,000 on a caravan – which her son did not know about.
Mr Wright, a doorman at a nightclub, said in a victim impact statement: ‘I was in hospital learning to walk and talk again from scratch and worse still, the people who would normally help you to do these things had left me, as a vulnerable adult, alone with no help.
‘She robbed her own son of every thing he had and left him to perish in the ruins of an already very difficult life.’
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