By Wills Robinson Two travellers who persuaded an elderly dementia sufferer to drop off £73,500 in cash at a bus stop or a lay-by have been jailed for a total of eight-and-a-half years. Father-of-six Hughie Doherty, 31, his brother Francis, 36, and the pair's brother-in-law David Young, conned the 84-year-old widow out of nearly all her life-savings by pretending to be solicitors. The men's scam was exposed when her bank manager became suspicious as they tried to extract £15,000 from the frail victim, who lived alone in the village of Blunham, Bedfordshire. Father of six Hughie Doherty, 31, was jailed for five years at Northampton Crown Court while his brother Francis is set to be sentenced at a later date. Both conned the elderly woman out of most of her life savings
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Hughie Doherty and his brother Frank took most of woman's life savings
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Brother-in-law David Young also persuaded widow to withdraw money
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Group were caught when her bank managed became suspicious
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Men acted as lawyers who could retrieve money she lost from conmen
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Judge at Northampton Crown Court said the effect on the victim was 'appalling' and she will never recover
He jailed father-of-one @placeholder, a ground worker who had spent 11 months on remand in custody, to three-and-a-half years.