Psychic robs grandmother

18/11/2006

Psychic robs grandmother

THE fortune teller became the fortune thief.

An Australian psychic had promised a better tomorrow but instead she and her Canadian “followers” have left a trail of misery in Sydney.

Guiseppa, a 60-year-old grandmother from Bexley, in Sydney’s south, came forward yesterday to help NSW police track the woman who stole her $308,000 life savings.

Going by the name of Nina, the conwoman tried to fleece at least four Sydney women by asking them to leave large amounts of money and jewellery with her so she could cleanse it of evil.

Police say the middle-aged Nina along with her husband, and a man and woman half their age, have vanished from their western Sydney unit.

And they’ve taken their crystal ball and tarot cards, and also more than $500,000 cash.

Det-Insp Jim Stewart said Guiseppa’s $300,000 and a further $200,000, as well as jewellery, was stolen after Nina had told her victims she needed it “for five to six days”.

Guiseppa, who said she was still to inform her husband of their loss, described how Nina had “looked at a crystal ball and touched me with her hands”.

“She said I was aggravated and cursed.”

The psychic had promised, during five or six 10-minute sessions, to rid her cash of a family curse.

Guiseppa, who suffers from depression, said that she had met Nina after answering an advertisement in a local newspaper for psychic readings that promised “a better tomorrow”.