A heartless travel agent who stole over £500,000 from her own mother and pretended to have terminal cancer, before conning holidaymakers out of thousands has been jailed.
Following the death of her dad from cancer, Lyne Barlow decided to steal £520,000 from her own mother by taking over her financial identity. She also dissipated her mother's entire NHS pension and redirected her post and bank statements. As Barlow drained her mother's cash, she also asked for loans from various other friends, often claiming she was being threatened, and gleaned thousands from her victims.
At one point, Barlow even tricked her mother into believing she was investing money into her husband's company, and at one point told her she was a millionaire - which she never was. As the money she stole from her mother slowly reduced, Barlow decided to set up her own business as a travel agent, and began defrauding holidaymakers and other friend in a scam which totalled £1.2m.
