A woman with online gambling debts of £75,000 who pretended she had cancer to con a man out of £50,000 has been jailed for more than two years.
Andrea Christine Jones had “manipulated her victim out of her own greed”, making false claims about her illness in order to take advantage of his good nature .
She had met her victim years ago in a Caernarfon social club where she worked as a cleaner.
The pair had a brief relationships 10 years ago and she got back in touch with him in September 2013, telling him she had cervical cancer.
Via text messages social media site WhatsApp they exchanged up to 60 messages a day, claiming she was unable to ring him because she was in hospital.
She told victim Richard Evans, 66, she needed to pay for treatment privately that was not available on the NHS.
Prosecutor Richard Edwards told Caernarfon crown court: “She begged him for money saying that the money would cure her and he began transferring money to her to pay for scans, blood transfusions and operations.
“The largest transaction was £4,000,” he said.
Jailing her for 28 months, Judge Phillip Harris-Jenkins said: “You have taken advantage of a friend of many years. You manipulated him to believe you had cancer and he gave you money to treat the disease.
“In fact you didn’t have cancer but you deceived the man causing him to be in a financial pickle himself.
“Because of what you did he cannot retire and struggles to make ends meet. You are not in any position to pay him back.”
Jones, 42, of Llys Siabod, Caernarfon, showed no emotion as she was sentenced and led away to begin her jail term.
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