A WARDEN at a home for retired clergy who swindled residents of their life savings has been ordered to pay back £197,000.
Richard Devereux raided residents' funds to finance a luxury lifestyle including a home in Devon, regular Caribbean holidays and a £20,000 car with personalised number plates.
Among those he swindled when working at the Manormead Home, in Hindhead, Surrey was William Richardson, a former canon of York Minster, and his wife Sybil, who lost £33,000.
Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court yesterday ordered the 64-year-old to reimburse the estates of his victims.
Devereux is serving three years in Ford Open Prison after pleading guilty in January last year to 17 counts of theft.
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