A woman who faked having cancer and raked in more than £45,000 in donations from well-wishers has been ordered to repay just five pounds. Nicole Elkabbas conned kind-hearted members of the public out of thousands using a convincing GoFundMe page and even a picture of her lying in a hospital bed.
She splurged the money on trips to Barcelona and Rome, gambling, and a box at Tottenham Hotspur football club. During her scheme she spoke about her ovarian cancer diagnosis, subsequent surgery and round after round of gruelling chemotherapy in what prosecutors said were “detailed lies”.
The 42-year-old, of Edge End Road in Broadstairs, Kent, appeared at Canterbury Crown Court on Wednesday, where she was jailed for two years and nine months in February. She has now been ordered to repay just £5 because she has no financial assets or ability to repay her nearly 700 victims, reports the Mirror.
