INTERNATIONAL NEWS - An Australian woman who faked having terminal cancer before scamming money from friends of her family has been jailed for three months.
Hanna Dickenson, 24, accepted A$42,000 (£22,000; $31,000) after telling her parents that she needed medical treatment overseas.
Her parents had received donations from their friends, a court was told. It heard Dickenson spent much of the money on holidays and socialising.
A judge called the scam "despicable".
Dickenson had pleaded guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court to seven charges of obtaining property by deception.
In sentencing, magistrate David Starvaggi said Dickenson had "engaged in conduct that tears at the very heartstrings of human nature".
Australian jailed for fake cancer scam
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Posted on: 07:51 Wed, 11 April 2018
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