Grandmother avoids jail over laundering

Hetty Isaac, 64 of Lauder Road, Bentley, Doncaster, received 20,105 into her account and withdrew 19,150 in cash within days which was returned to the fraudsters involved.

Isaac admitted a charge of money laundering and was yesterday sentenced to 36 weeks in prison suspended for 18 months with 200 hours unpaid work for the community.

John Taylor, 35 of Nunthorpe Crescent, South Bank, York, who was operations manager at the York Office of Norwich Union, now Aviva, was last month jailed for five and a half years for conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to launder money.