Woman to pay compo after Jude Law’s gran swindled out of cash
A WOMAN jailed for her part in a £700,000 fraud in which elderly people – including actor Jude Law’s grandmother – were swindled by a gang of rogue builders has been ordered to pay £31,401 in compensation.
Caryn Wyn Owen, 52, of Queen’s Avenue, Bangor, was locked up for 20 months last year for money laundering.
A Proceeds of Crime hearing at Caernarfon Crown Court heard yesterday her total benefit had been £68,494.
Gareth Roberts, representing Owen, said the cash would be raised by the sale of her house, and a judge told her that fail● Jude ure to pay would involve 12 Law months’ imprisonment.
Mark Williams, 34, of Bro Rhyddallt, Llanrug, whose benefit was £27,000, must pay £1,786 with two months’ jail in default. Last year he got a 28-week suspended sentence.
The case involved bills given to pensioners for roofing and building work at Bangor, Holyhead, Benllech and Penrhyn Bay.
One victim, who lost £60,916, was actor Law’s grandmother Meinwen Parry, 89, of College Road, Bangor, who has since died.
Another was a retired school caretaker from Penrhyn Bay, who lost £615,310 which he paid for substandard roofing work on his bungalow.