Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A 'heartless' wedding planner has been jailed for five years.
after defrauding victims out of £60,000. Dana Twidale, 44, conned dozens of vulnerable victims out of thousands of pounds in a "campaign of planned and callous frauds." Hull Crown Court heard she "blighted" the weddings of 24 couples when she took payment for services that she did not deliver, leaving them angry, stressed and losing money they had "saved and scrimped" to make what should have been the happiest day of their lives special.
Twidale, from Hull, East Yorkshire, admitted 26 counts of fraud by false representation totalling about £60,000, during an earlier hearing before
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