A travel agent who faked having cancer while scamming customers out of £1.2million has been jailed.
Lyne Barlow, who previously lived in Stanley, County Durham, has been handed a nine-year prison sentence at Durham Crown Court after defrauding more than 1,400 customers, including friends and family.
Jailing the 39-year-old on Friday, Judge Jo Kidd told Barlow she had “an extraordinary talent for dishonesty” after hearing that she had stolen more than £500,000 from her own mother following the death of her father in 2015.
