Hartlepool nurse stole bank cards to gamble
20-01-2014
Nurse Rubilita Coggin is heading to prison after she stole bankcards to fund her gambling addiction. Peter Jones revealed how his late wife was
robbed while she was dying. Coggin has been sentenced to a 15-month jail term.
Unbelievable theft

Jones was shocked when he learned about the
theft worth £5,000. His 87-year-old wife would spend the last days before her death at home, but a congestive cardiac failure put a spanner in the works. “Fortunately, Connie passed away without knowing that a nurse had stolen her bank cards. I doubt if she would have believed that someone would be capable to steal from a dying patient,” Jones said.
Online gambling transactions
“Four weeks after he death, I discovered the fraudulent transactions on her bank statements. I was shocked when I reviewed twelve pages packed with online gambling transactions. Apparently, the nurse in question spent many hours gambling at a Malta-based
internet casino.”
Unexpected perpetrator
Jones’ called his cousin, who owns a security company, and he immediately determined that somebody had
stolen the bank cards. “At that moment I didn’t realize that one of the nurses was the perpetrator. I didn’t know her personally, but I knew that one of the caring nurses had access to the storage compartment where my late wife kept her purse,” Jones added.