Overview
- A Nottingham Crown Court jury found 52-year-old Rexy Reyes guilty of two counts of theft after a three-day trial and five hours of deliberation.
- Judge James Sampson sentenced him to 18 months in prison and cited a calculated breach of trust against a vulnerable patient with dementia.
- Reyes took the card from a staff-only locker, used a PIN written in the wallet, and withdrew cash on 22 consecutive days at a hospital ATM without camera coverage.
- The thefts came to light on February 22, 2020, when the woman’s nephew, Mark Norman, spotted multiple withdrawals on a bank statement.
- Reyes was ordered to pay £6,450 in compensation to the family and £4,380 in prosecution costs, and the nephew said the crime shook his confidence in the health service.