Care Home Forger Must Pay £45K Compo

A care home entrepreneur has been ordered to pay £45,000 compensation to a business partner she ran a Harrow residential facility with after admitting forgery.

Abeeda Khan, 54, was a 50% owner of Oakleigh Care Home, based in Oakleigh Road, Hatch End during the period 2012 to 2017.

In 2019 she stood trial at Harrow Crown Court, where she denied defrauding the business, but the jury failed to convict her on the charges.

After over two more years on bail Khan, of St. Mary’s Avenue South, Southall was back at the Crown Court last Friday, where she was finally sentenced.

She pleaded guilty to using a false instrument and was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment, suspended for eighteen months.

Khan was ordered to pay the compensation order within twenty-eight days and must also pay £5,000 costs.

The fraud charges will lie on the file.

During the trial two years ago the court heard Khan treated herself to a Jimmy Choo handbag with Oakleigh Care Home Funds and used the company credit card to make other personal purchases.

She was also employed as the £34,000-a year manager of the 19-bed home, where it was also said she submitted false claims for petty cash.

Khan was questioned three times by the police and always claimed the home’s co-owner consented to and encouraged her actions.