A woman who stole over €40,000 from a 90-year-old retired GP she was caring for has been jailed for two years.

Nermana Gojak of Pineview Avenue, Aylesbury, Tallaght in Dublin admitted transferring money from the woman’s account to her own.

For ten years, Gojak worked as a carer and housekeeper for the 90-year-old woman.

She worked for a couple of hours a week and was given access to the woman’s deposit account.

She was caught transferring thousands of euro into her own account when a friend of the woman’s overheard her on the phone to the bank.

The court heard she stole €41,380 over a five-year period from September 2012 to August 2017 by using the woman’s laser card to buy things and get cash back.

In her Victim Impact Statement, the woman said she wasn’t able to get a new carer after Gojak was let go and had to move into a nursing home.

She said she had embraced Gojak “like a daughter” and became “fearful and worried” about living on her own in her home afterwards.

Judge Melanie Greally said there was no doubt the sense of betrayal felt by the woman was the most significant element of her victim impact evidence.

She sentenced the 44-year-old mother-of-three to three years in prison with the final 12 months suspended.

Reporting by Frank Greaney