War hero’s bank account emptied by his son

A Second World War hero and his dementia-suffering wife had their £90,000 savings plundered by their own son when he moved in with them to be a carer, a court heard. Laurent Phillpotts, 70, allegedly took advantage of his parents’ ailing health to empty their current account over a nine-month period. His father, also called Laurent Phillpotts, who served in the RAF from 1943, died last year, while his widow, Marion, is too ill to give evidence at the Old…