Midwife raided relative’s savings account

A midwife who plundered a relative’s savings to fund her luxury lifestyle of fast cars and swish hotels has been struck off. Margarita Barnett, who worked at Eastbourne Hospital in east Sussex, swindled £56,000 from her relative who had a UK bank account but lived abroad. The disgraced health worker said she was struggling for cash and would pay the money back. But bank statements showed she was spending the money of frivolous expenses and not on essentials. She was…