>but i'm assuming they got 5ish years each
>Hopefully long enough for them to see the error of their ways.
No it was not murder, but forcing an 88 year old woman with dementia to sell her £70,000 house for £16,000, telling her she could live in it for the rest of her life, and then cutting off her gas and electricity is pretty awful (and could have killed her).
How would you feel if it was your mother?
And remember the young idiots who posted "riot" posts on Facebook got 3 or 4 years (not condoning it, but these were young stupid kids were doing something on the spur of the moment).
These guys only got 5 years. And how much of that will they serve. only 2 or 3 perhaps.
They will consider that a good return for how much money they made, over £500,000, so they must have conned a lot of old people.