A woman who collected more than £250,000 (Rs.2 crore) from her ex-husband, his family and members of the public after falsely claiming to have cancer has been jailed. Jasmin Mistry, 36, received the huge sum via multiple donations between 2015 and 2017, having told her partner that she needed to travel to the US for life-saving brain cancer treatment.
She first told her husband that she had the disease in 2013, and managed to add further credibility to the fake diagnosis by using an extra SIM card to send him a WhatsApp message from a fictitious doctor. Upon her arrest in November last year, Mistry told officers that she did not know why she had lied about being ill and she was charged with one count of fraud by false representation on 20 August.
Mistry, of Mallard Road in Loughborough, pleaded guilty to the charge on 24 October and was sentenced to four years behind bars at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday.