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Oswestry benefits fraudster used dead baby ID
Thursday 22nd September 2011, 11:00AM BST.
A conwoman who used a false identity taken from a dead baby to gain a mortgage has been jailed for three years.
Georgine Murphy, 54, who was living at Lakeholme Gardens in Oswestry, also stole money from her late aunt’s estate and falsely claimed housing and council tax benefits. In total she took more than £90,000 and used false information to apply for a mortgage advance of £169,545.
Murphy was sentenced to three years imprisonment at Mold Crown Court yesterday after the court heard fraud had become a way of life for her.
She had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to four counts of fraud, one count of failing to notify changes of circumstances affecting entitlement to benefit and two counts of furnishing false information to obtain benefits.
Judge Philip Hughes said: “Your offences span three years from 2007 until 2010.
“You cheated the estate and siphoned off about £80,000 for your own use denying your uncle and his wife of their full entitlement of your aunt’s will.”
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