Canterbury Crown Court on Wednesday (February 10). She was found guilty by majority verdicts last November of fraud by false representation and possession of criminal property.Elkabbas had denied the offences and her defence had argued that she believed she had cancer.Sentencing Elkabbas, Judge Mark Weekes said the deception was “cunning and manipulative”.He told her: “You produced details and at times graphic accounts of the treatments you were receiving in an effort to keep those that you had ensnared in your web of lies believing.“All the while you were gambling, enjoying shopping trips and luxuries in Italy and Spain at their expense." Judge Weekes also spoke of the effect her lies had had on NHS staff and the resources that went into.
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