Interesting. Extracts:

“Robson carried out the offences between March 2024 and May last year while she was on licence after serving a second prison term for fraud.

The court heard the mum had 33 previous convictions for 87 offences, including 31 earlier frauds…

Judge Robinson told her she targeted victims before “spinning them lies about your personal life in order to gain their sympathy and trust to persuade them to part with money”.

She said one victim was pursued “mercilessly for everything he had” until he paid over his last £1.07 which was “all he had in his account”.”

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