A nurse, conned by her best friend out of £117,000, said she felt 'sick as each piece of the jigsaw fell into place'.
Anna Bonner asked her chief bridesmaid, Susan Hughes, for huge sums of money to pay for a sick friend’s treatment – but she was in fact spending it all on herself. Mum-of-three Bonner, 40, knew that Susan had a crush on the friend and was hoping for a relationship with him, and played on her affections to con her out of cash, gifts and personal letters.
Earlier this month a judge at Liverpool Crown Court labelled Bonner “greedy, devious and manipulative” after she pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation. She was jailed for 28 months. Susan, a psychiatric nurse, said: “I have a soft heart, I like looking after people, and Anna took advantage of that. She manipulated me and took me for every penny I had.
