A serial fraudster who has previously stolen from nearly every member of her immediate family has returned to form after staying out of trouble for more than six years.
Stephanie Swanston was a regular in the courts and on ChronicleLive up until 2014 after she repeatedly stole, conned people out of cash or fraudulently claimed thousands of pounds in benefits. As previously reported, the 34-year-old once shamelessly raided the bank account of her elderly grandfather George, 75 at the time, to jet off to Turkey.
On another occasion, the crook pawned her own mother’s watches to get her hands on cash and, on another, applied for more than £7,000 in carer’s allowance, by forging her grandfather’s signature. She also used her sister’s name to make separate applications for the payment.
