A resident of the English county of Cheshire, who pretended to be terminally ill in order to raise money for a wedding, was sentenced to prison. The Daily Mail reports.
In June 2015, Toni Standen lied to friends that she had end-stage vaginal cancer. According to her, she had no more than two months to live. To look like a cancer patient, she shaved her head baldly. The British woman told her friends that before her death she dreams of marrying her beloved James.
The friends decided to help their friend get their dream wedding and raised 8.5 thousand pounds (860 thousand rubles) on the GoFundMe crowdfunding service. Stenden spent the money on a celebration and honeymoon in Turkey. In addition, the newlyweds visited Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic and Italy.
Later friends exposed her deception. At the trial, the woman confessed to fraud. On Tuesday, December 22, the final hearing of the case took place. The 29-year-old defendant was imprisoned for five months and ordered to return a donation of two thousand pounds sterling (202 thousand rubles) made by a local businessman.
In 2018 it was reported that the Australian woman pretended to be a cancer patient for eight years. During this time, 400 thousand Australian dollars (22.8 million rubles at the current rate) were donated to her for treatment.