Sydney carer jailed for at least 19 years for killing widower

A carer who murdered an elderly Sydney man after fleecing him of his money has been jailed for at least 19 years.

Kerry Forrest was this year found guilty of murdering 84-year-old Bill Adamson by making him ingest a lethal dose of a morphine-based painkiller in a Sydney motel room in April 2010.

The 54-year-old had been hired as Mr Adamson's live-in carer less than a year earlier after his wife, Beryl, died.

Within six months, Forrest helped him sell his home in Kareela, in Sydney's south, leaving them with a profit of more than $300,000.

She then began to squirrel the money into several of her bank accounts and spend the proceeds on poker machines in clubs across Sydney.

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