A widow of a 7/7 bombing victim has been jailed for two years and eight months for stealing £43,000 from her son's compensation.
Louise Gray, 42, spent £250,000 of her own compensation money before turning to her son Adam's fund, Ipswich Crown Court heard.
Gray, 42, from Ipswich, is said to have frittered away the money on cars, clothes and luxury holidays.
She admitted stealing £43,000 between July, 2012, and November, 2013, at an earlier hearing.
Her husband, accountant Richard Gray, 41, was one of 52 people killed in the 2005 London bombings as he commuted to work.
Judge David Goodin told Gray: "The offence you have committed against your son, the trust you betrayed - a second hammer blow following the death of his father - is so serious it can only be met by a custodial sentence."
The judge added: "The theft of £43,000 is one thing. The theft of £43,000 by a parent from a young adult's trust is quite another, when that sum represented most - practically all - the compensation he received for his father's tragic death.
"It's an act of wickedness almost beyond belief.
"He has lost not one parent, but two."
Adam was 11-years-old when his father was killed by suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer on a Circle line Underground train.
The children's money was placed in trust until their 18th birthdays, but Adam gave his cash to his mother to look after when he turned 18.
When he arranged to meet her in November 2013 to ask for the money because he was looking to buy a property, she confessed she had spent it, the court was told.
Adam took civil action to try to recover the cash and his mother was ordered by a county court judge to repay him the £43,000.
He also reported the matter to police and she was prosecuted for theft.
The court heard that Gray had offered to pay her son £10,000 followed by further monthly payments but the offer had been rejected.
Gray was supported in court by her partner, Umar Shamshoom, who is the father of her three-year-old daughter.
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