A Markham man who drained his elderly mother’s bank account has been sentenced to three years in jail.

David Klimitz, 60, was sentenced on Wednesday.

He was convicted in June of defrauding Royale Klimitz out of her life savings.

She died penniless at the age of 91 in a public nursing facility, after she was evicted from her private retirement home.

It was David’s own brother, Ron, that discovered that his mother’s finances were being pillaged. In September, Ron said he believes his sibling deserves hard prison time for depleting $600,000 from their mother’s bank account.

“I still have a lot of anger about it,” he said at the time. “He did it to his own mother.”

Klimitz was convicted on June 30 of theft over $5,000 and fraud over $5,000.

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