HSBC clerk who stole £120k from pensioners on the run

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A bank clerk who stole money from a sick and elderly customer went on the run yesterday just hours before her sentencing.

Between 2005 and 2008 Bindi Dhanji, from Watford, took close to £60,000 from the pensioner's account after hearing that due to ill health she had moved to France to be with her family. At the same time she was also stealing from a second of her elderly clients. Working from a west London branch, the clerk gained the trust of the woman, who is in her 80s, and siphoned off more than £60,000 from her savings account. City of London Police say the victim considered Dhanji, 32, to be a friend, even bringing her gifts of flowers and chocolates. Dhanji appears to have used the stolen m...

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