Post by Golden_Boy™ on Jan 30, 2007 14:20:56 GMT -1
Lying Bride Jailed For £100k Con
A woman has been jailed for two years after conning men into marrying her by telling them she was a millionaire who was dying of cancer. Emma Golightly showered her lovers with top-of-the-range cars and exotic holidays. When she told them she had terminal cancer and did not want to die without being a bride, they invariably agreed to marry her.
But she was not suffering from cancer and the expensive presents had been paid for on her lovers' credit cards - which she also used to buy herself gifts.
Newcastle Crown Court was told that the extent of the 22-year-old's crime spree, including more than 80 offences, was worth £254,000, including £208,000 on fast cars.
Penniless Golightly, of Meadowfield Gardens, Walkerville, Newcastle upon Tyne, even ripped off her own family, using her mother and grandmother's credit cards.
Police began to probe the deceptions after her extravagant lifestyle ended in huge bills for the men she romanced.
Jailing her for two years, Judge David Wood told her: "Over a period of quite a long time you befriended a number of men and pretended to them you were rich, terminally ill and in need of a husband.
"You encouraged them by offering lavish gifts whilst all the time you had stolen their cheque books or credit cards and were using them for your own advantage."
Judge Wood accepted that the defendant was suffering from a personality disorder but said the offences of theft, deception and attempted deception were so serious as to merit a jail term.
uk.news.yahoo.com/30012007/140/lying-bride-jailed-163-100k-con.html
A woman has been jailed for two years after conning men into marrying her by telling them she was a millionaire who was dying of cancer. Emma Golightly showered her lovers with top-of-the-range cars and exotic holidays. When she told them she had terminal cancer and did not want to die without being a bride, they invariably agreed to marry her.
But she was not suffering from cancer and the expensive presents had been paid for on her lovers' credit cards - which she also used to buy herself gifts.
Newcastle Crown Court was told that the extent of the 22-year-old's crime spree, including more than 80 offences, was worth £254,000, including £208,000 on fast cars.
Penniless Golightly, of Meadowfield Gardens, Walkerville, Newcastle upon Tyne, even ripped off her own family, using her mother and grandmother's credit cards.
Police began to probe the deceptions after her extravagant lifestyle ended in huge bills for the men she romanced.
Jailing her for two years, Judge David Wood told her: "Over a period of quite a long time you befriended a number of men and pretended to them you were rich, terminally ill and in need of a husband.
"You encouraged them by offering lavish gifts whilst all the time you had stolen their cheque books or credit cards and were using them for your own advantage."
Judge Wood accepted that the defendant was suffering from a personality disorder but said the offences of theft, deception and attempted deception were so serious as to merit a jail term.
uk.news.yahoo.com/30012007/140/lying-bride-jailed-163-100k-con.html
