A SERIAL conman who preyed on elderly
and vulnerable women is still on the run two weeks after fleeing
Warwick Crown Court before being sentenced.
Sean Quinn had been found guilty of
burgling the home of an 88-year-old woman in Kenilworth and was facing
a minimum three-year jail sentence. After being granted bail
29-year-old Quinn had arrived at court but fled minutes before being
sentenced on December 22.
With
three previous convictions for similar offences, Quinn, who is from
Nottingham, had been found guilty of stealing cheques and a bank card
from a bungalow in Beauchamp Court.
The
pensioner, who suffers from dementia and is blind in one eye, was
persuaded to write a cheque for £190 after Quinn and an accomplice had
tricked their way into the property. They then took several blank
cheques, a debit card and conned her into revealing her pin number.
Minutes
later they used the card to withdraw £300 from a cash machine in
Kenilworth town centre and failed in an attempt to withdraw a further
£200. After returning to Nottingham they tried to use the card again
but it was retained by the machine.
When
the cheque book was analysed Quinn’s fingerprints were found on it but
he had claimed the other man was responsible for taking the cheques.
At the resumed hearing, defending solicitor, Timothy Palmer, said: “He was here, but he is not now.
“He
thought the case would be adjourned today because he has been charged
with new matters. I advised him this was by no means certain.
“He said he wished to make arrangements to send his girlfriend home. He went off and has not returned.”
The
judge issued a warrant for Quinn’s arrest and commented: “I express the
hope that it can be activated as soon as possible so this defendant can
begin to face up to reality.”
A spokesman for Warwickshire Police said on Tuesday that Quinn was still at large.
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