A nurse has spoken of her devastation after her best friend conned her out of more than £100,000. Susan Hughes handed over the money to Anna Bonner, 40, believing it was being used to help a man called 'Ste Lucas' fight cancer.
Susan had fallen for a man called Ste while he was working on the door of a nightclub, and believed Anna when she told him he was her uncle. But after Susan had spent years handing over her NHS wages, loans, and cash borrowed on credit cards, she made the shocking discovery that her best friend had been lying to her.
Now, having been driven into debt and a mental health breakdown by Anna's lies, Susan doesn't know if the 'Ste Lucas' she was communicating with ever existed, or was a fictional character based on the bouncer she fell for.
