A Northumberland daughter who took out fraudulent mobile phone contracts in the names of her family members has dodged jail.
Laura Rowell was living with her mother, father and sister when she took out the contracts without their knowledge in March 2020 in order to sell the "high end" Samsung handsets for cash. The 28-year-old left her family in more than £28,000 of debt and made around £8,000 for herself, spending the money on nights out and gifts for herself.
Described as a "compulsive spender of money", Rowell even put a stop on Royal Mail delivering post to the family home in Ashington to try and conceal her fraudulent activity. But her family finally became aware of what she was doing when letters from mobile phone providers slipped through the net and were delivered.
