Let-off for woman who gambled mum’s pension in Vegas

A ‘cold-hearted’ fraudster who stole £66,000 from her dead mother’s pension pot to gamble away in Las Vegas was spared jail. Maria Blacklock, 58, moved to the gambling Mecca with her frail mum, Phyllis Millman, in the mid-2000s. But when Phyllis passed away in June 2011, callous Blacklock falsified certificates to make it look like her mother was still alive and even faked her voice over the phone. She then used the dead woman’s credit cards to empty her bank…