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A heartless finance worker who fleeced her grandmother out of thousands of pounds must repay a meagre £84, a court has ruled. Amanda Farr, 48, was jailed last year for 18 months after a jury was told she had pilfered more than £24,000 from Joyce Hutchings’s savings. The ill-gotten gains were then said to have been spent online with the likes of JustEat, McDonald’s, iTunes and the PlayStation store. A total of 130 transactions also included bets with William Hill and an Amsterdam holiday. The deception left Ms Hutchings, then aged 91 and living in Whitstable, owing money to utility companies an…

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