Man emptied his friend’s bank account when the victim got dementia

A close friend of an elderly dementia patient stole nearly £19,000 from him after he was taken into care, a court heard. Howard Lennon, 68, emptied Ronald McDonald’s (corr) bank account between April and December 2020 and spent the lot on himself, it is claimed. Mr McDonald had been admitted to Kings College Hospital in southeast London following a stroke in April 2020 before he passed away in January 2021. Lennon was friends with Ms McDonald and claimed to have…