A mum who defrauded a severely ill man out of thousands while acting as his carer after conning her former teacher has been spared jail as her daughter is thought to be seriously ill with Strep A.
Myriam Midi, now 23, was only a teenager when she took £34,000 from a former primary school teacher and his wife, saying she would use it to pay for university in Bristol, before she tried to use the money to buy a house in Wigan.
Just months after she took more than £16,000, and unsuccessfully tried to get £6,000 more, from a man with severe motor neurone disease (MND), telling him she was in love with him and needed to pay for family members' funerals and for treatment for a brain tumour, none of which was true. It was only when an employee of the man raised suspicions of the fraud that he contacted police, with investigations revealing the previous fraud against the couple.
