A mum who was jailed after faking her own kidnapping in a bid to con her ex out of £2,000 to buy Christmas presents has been freed after winning an appeal on Tuesday.
Leah Jumeaux, 20, of Blackpool, sent her ex photos of herself bound and gagged, using red felt-tip pin in a "crude" attempt to make it look like she was bleeding.
In messages to the man, who she had met on social media, she demanded a £2,000 ransom which she later admitted she wanted to fund a Christmas present spending spree.
