A PENSIONER left homeless by her swindling son has donated £50 she won on premium bonds to victims of the typhoon disaster in the Philippines.

Bicester’s Margaret Butler, 96, said: “There is always someone worse off than you.”

She lost everything when son David Butler illegally sold her Bicester home in 2011 to fund an affair with prostitute Rachel Read.

The former piano teacher, 70 when sentenced, was jailed for nine months in February but later told to repay just £1 to his mother after the court heard he was now broke.

David Bright, prosecuting, said at a proceeds of crime hearing that Butler had gained £140,000 and Read £61,500 from the house sale.

Read – jailed for 12 months – was ordered to pay Mrs Butler £3,000 by selling her car.

Mrs Butler – who now lives with another son, Graham – invested some of an insurance payment in National Savings and Investment premium bonds.

And when she landed a £50 win she decided to donate it to victims of Typhoon Hayian.

She told the Oxford Mail: “There is so much suffering going on in the world, you have got to think how lucky you are.

“I am lucky to be looked after by my son.”

Her son Graham, 75, who lives next to his mother’s former home in Banbury Road, Bicester, said: “She was watching the news about the typhoon on television and was just appalled. It is a dreadful tragedy beyond description, and it makes you think we are all so fortunate here.

“The whole family went through a terrible ordeal. I’ve known David my whole life and some of the things he did were so crazy I came to the conclusion he is not right in the head.

“What mum has done is very good indeed.”

He said his brother served four months of his nine-month prison sentence and was released in the summer.

A judge was told Mr Butler was “obsessed” with Read – 30 years his junior – and was left penniless and homeless by the 12-year affair. The former organist at St Edburg’s Church, Bicester, met her after answering a newspaper advert, only for her to leave him with nothing.

Butler was described in court as a “broken man” who turned himself in after Read emptied their shared account.

He was convicted of asking her to forge his mother’s signature to sell the house.

They were both convicted of forgery and acquiring stolen property after a trial.

Read, of Frilford, near Abingdon, was also found guilty on one count of fraud.