A MOTHER has been accused of stealing £6,597 from her son's two bank accounts - as he recovered from life-threatening injuries sustained in a motorbike accident.
Joanne Stubbs, 42, of Summer Lane, Wombwell, will make her first appearance at Sheffield Crown Court on November 7.
She made no plea to a charge of fraud by false representation at Barnsley Magistrates' Court.
Jayne Ormrod, prosecuting, said Stubbs's son Matthew Baynham, 21, had been told he would never walk again. She said the money was allegedly taken between early May and mid-July.
Julian Brook, defending, said he needed time to go through details of the case with Stubbs and her family.
He said she was entitled to make no plea at this stage.
Stubbs was granted unconditional bail.
