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＜更新日時＞ 05月25日（木） 05:48
Boy George's agent says ITV producers should consider stepping in to 'balance out' I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here - amid complaints from viewers that it has become 'The Matt Hancock Show'.
Top showbiz agent Jonathan Shalit, evdEn evE NaKliYaT who represents the singer and current jungle camp mate, says other stars are 'suffering from a lack of airtime' because Matt Hancock is continuously being picked by the public to take on Bushtucker trials.
The former Health Secretary has been front and centre of this series of the hit show since joining the jungle as a late arrival.
Having put himself at the mercy of the British public after his often-criticised reaction to the Covid pandemic and his very public rule breaching affair, the MP is set to take part in his sixth Bushtucker challenge tonight.
He has taken part in a series of tough trials, including the dreaded eating challenge, evDeN evE NAkliyAT alongside Boy George.Last night he was made 'Camp Leader' having been voted by viewers to compete against former England rugby star for eVDen evE NAkliYat the title.
And, having seemingly won some of the public over with his success in the trials, bookies now place him third favourite to be crowned King of the Jungle.
But while millions of Britons have enjoyed and voted to see the former cabinet minister squeal and squirm during the challenges, some are now becoming 'bored' of the politician soaking up the screen time.
Professor Shalit, who has co-managed Boy George for the last two years, believes it may be time for producers of the hit show to intervene.
But the showbiz agent, whos is Chairman of InterTalent Rights Group, says all the campmates are currently benefiting from the 'genius' casting on this year's show.
Speaking to MailOnline, Professor Shalit, who also represents Boy George's I'm A Celeb campmate Scarlette Douglas, said: 'This year's series has indeed come The Matt Hancock Show, due to genius casting by ITV and what the viewers are enjoying.
Boy George's agent says ITV producers should consider stepping in to 'balance out' I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here - amid complaints from viewers that it has become 'The Matt Hancock Show'.Pictured: Matt Hancock on I'm a Celebrity
The former Health Secretary has been front and centre of this series of the hit ITV show since joining the I'm A Celeb jungle as a late arrival last week.Pictured: evdeN eVe nakLiyAT Matt Hancock takes on the House of Horrors challenge on I'm A Celebrity
Professor Jonathan Shalit, who represents the singer (pictured) and current jungle camp mate, says other stars are 'suffering from a lack of airtime' because Matt Hancock is repeatedly being picked to take on Bushtucker trials
Professor EVDEn EVe nakliYAT Shalit (pictured right), Chairman of InterTalent Rights Group, believes it may be time for producers of the hit show to intervene.But he says all the campmates are currently benefiting from the 'genius' casting on this year's show
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＜更新日時＞ 05月24日（水） 21:02
A travel agent faked while defrauding more than 1,400 customers has been jailed at Durham Crown Court for nine years.
Lyne Barlow, 39, was 'riding the monster of deceit' as she used her fake illness to deflect the avalanche of complaints from devastated families whose holidays failed to materialise.
She was so determined to continue her charade that she even convinced her husband, Paul, and son and daughter she was battling cancer.
Family members took her to hospital appointments, unaware that she was simply waiting inside before re-emerging claiming to have seen her consultant.
To make her story more convincing, she cut off strands of her hair and scattered them across her pillow to make it look as though she was losing it to chemotherapy.
Lyne Barlow, 39, claimed to her customers that she was covered by insurance and was a member of the trusted travel brand Association of British Travel Agents
Barlow also claimed to be suffering from a terminal illness while she was selling the holidays, Durham Crown Court heard in October last year
When Barlow was arrested in 2020 she hobbled into the police station with her head swathed in a scarfe and walking with a stick.
Custody photographs show a vast difference when she was re-arrested a year later and was forced to admit her 'stage 3/4' cancer had been a fabrication.
Barlow stooped so low as to defraud her own mother, Susan Coleman, 64, out of £500,000 - part of which came from an insurance payout following the untimely death of her father, Barry.
The rest was NHS ward sister Mrs Coleman's retirement payout and savings, which Barlow told her she'd invested in a business venture which would make her mother rich.
Barlow took over her grieving mother's financial affairs as she struggled to come to terms with losing her husband in 2015.
As she systematically emptied her mother's accounts she intercepted her post to stop her getting bank statements.
A redacted email exchange Lyne Barlow had with a customer about her pretend cancer
Travel agent Lyne Barlow (left) arrives at Durham Crown Court to be sentenced for defrauding friends, family and hundreds of customers who bought holidays from her in a £2.6 million con
Lyne Barlow claimed to her customers that she was covered by insurance and was a member of the trusted travel brand Association of British Travel Agents.(Pictured left: Lyne Barlow)
She also mocked up bank statement from Barclays which appeared to show that her mother's money was in fact growing rather than disappearing.
Barlow also took her mum away on lavish holidays along with her children, a boy and a girl.
However it emerged the reason for Evden eVE NAkLiYAT this was, on some occasions, that Barlow knew through the intercepted post, that bailiffs were due to turn up at her mum's house and she didn't want her to find out.
Mrs Coleman was left penniless by a daughter who used part of her money to set up Lyne Barlow Independent Travel in Stanley, County Durham.
Barlow offered holidays at astonishing prices to drum up trade.
Customers were able to snap up all inclusive trips to Dubai for just
£500 and word quickly spread of her extraordinary bargains.
The bubble quickly burst as families saw their hard earned money vanish on holidays that they never got to take.
Some paid up to £5,500 to arrive at their destination and discover no funds had been received by the hotel so there were no rooms booked.
Others arrived to discover they had no place on the return flight and were stranded abroad until they could find their own way back.
Eventually a Facebook group was set up by furious victims of Barlow's scam and an agreement reached to go to Durham Police en masse.
There were so many calls to the force's HQ that they had to be directed to an email address because emergency callers would have been unable to get through.
In total Barlow could be proven to have defrauded family, friends and customers out of £1.2m, but investigators believe the total sum she gained over a period of five years from 2015 to 2020 was £2.6m.
Barlow admitted theft, 10 counts of fraud and possessing criminal property at Durham Crown Court and was jailed for nine years.
Judge Joanne Kidd told her: 'You have presented yourself to those who knew you as a charming an engaging woman.
'You are clearly a woman with significant intellectual ability but you also have an extraordinary talent for dishonesty.
Her first victims were family and friends and she used their savings before setting up an independent travel agency, in which she fraudulently sold holidays, EvdEN EvE nakliyAT reporting them to be ATOL and ABTA protected, the force said.(Pictured: stock image of a beach)
'You mercilessly abused the trust of your nearest and dearest in their darkest hours and set about targeting other vulnerable people of your acquaintance who trusted you in order to satisfy your relatively lavish lifestyle.
'This involved lavish holidays, an expensive car and designer goods.
'The extent of the betrayal of your own mother is truly breathtaking.
'As you gallivanted around your mother's utility bills went unpaid and county court judgements rained down upon her.
'Bailiffs visited her home, unbeknown to her because you deviously arranged to take her away on visits on the days they were to arrive.
'I take the view that you are a thoroughly callous individual.'
Tony Davis, mitigating, said: 'Once she began riding the monster of deceit it was inevitable it would come crashing down and it did. If you have any issues with regards to where and how to use Evden evE nAkliYAt, you can speak to us at our website. '
Barlow squandered the cash handed to her on designer clothes, prestige cars and holidays for her and her immediate family, with exclusive breaks in Dubai being her chosen retreat.
The charges stated that Barlow made false representations by purporting to be an ABTA and ATOL registered travel agent when in fact she was using criminal cash to finance further frauds.
Money handed over by customers was being used to pay for holidays that subsequent clients booked through her, in a Ponzi-type scheme.
But her jugging over other people's cash came crashing down in 2020 when police were called in.
Furious customers were arriving at her home even as officers moved in to arrest her.
She used her 'cancer' as a shield to fend off angry people she had conned.
In an email she told one customer who was chasing a refund for a
holiday: 'Unfortunately I've just found out my cancer has spread and it's gone to stage 3/4 in my bones and need to have chemo out into my spine to stop it from getting into my brain. It's going to be pretty intense.'
Detective Sergeant Alan Meehan from Durham Police Complex Fraud Team led the investigation.
He said: 'At the time of her arrest we were aware that she was telling people she had cancer and at that time we kept an open mind on whether that was correct or not not.
'As part of the investigation we asked to access her medical records and it was only then that the truth emerged that she had been making the whole thing up.
'It was a determined and calculated attempt to distract attention from her crimes and deflect blame away from her because she hoped people would feel sorry for eVden eVe nAkliyat her.
'The lengths she went to were very unusual.It came as a massive shock to her husband that she did not in fact have cancer.
'She wore a scarf over her head and appeared to be losing her hair, although we believe she was cutting off strands and scattering it across her pillow at night to keep up that deception.
'Members of her family were even taking her to hospital appointments that never existed.
When she was first arrested in September 2020 she presented as a very frail and sick woman, walking with a stick and with her head in a black scarf to cover the apparent hair loss.
'Once confronted by the medical information she had no option but to admit she'd been lying.
'The second custody photograph from when she was re-arrested in 2021 show the true picture, with no sign or suggestion of illness.
'In our opinion it's a serious aggravating factor in the largest case of fraud this force has ever dealt with.
'Lyne Barlow was trying to attain a lifestyle she could not afford and rather than stop as she got out of her depth she continued to take money from more and more victims.
'The number of calls we received on this case was unprecedented and once they started coming in they were so many that we had to set up a dedicated email as the control room was in danger of being overrun.'
James Lewis, of the Crown Prosecution Service said: 'Barlow acted with greed, using false promises and deceptive lies, to convince family and friends, eVDEn eVE nAkliyAT as well as hundreds of customers, who all trusted her, to part with their money so that she could sustain her own lavish lifestyle.
'Fraud is an insidious crime and the cost to the many victims in this case has not just been financial; it has also caused huge emotional distress and extreme disappointment to devastated customers who had to find out their holiday did not actually exist at a time when the country was in the grips of the Covid-19 pandemic.
'Thanks to the thorough investigation by Durham Police and to all the victims who came forward to report her, we were able to bring Barlow to justice.
'We will now be taking steps to recover this money taken through Proceeds of Crime legislation.'
＜更新日時＞ 05月24日（水） 17:11
put on a glamourous display for the Lulu Guinness Valentine's Dinner at Home House in London.
The Tuesday outing was her first since her Muff Liquor advert was banned by the ASA for 'targeting minors and encouraging irresponsible drinking'
Despite the backlash, the presenter, 37, sported a black velvet trouser suit paired with a striking patterned shirt which had red lips on it by Lulu Guinness.
She carried an embroidered bird cage bag by the label as she posed for pictures.
Laura wore her blonde locks in loose waves, opting for a slick of ruby red lipstick.
The star, who is married to Love Island's voiceover star Iain Stirling, 34, and shares a 23-month-old daughter with him.
Letting her hair down: Laura Whitmore attended Lulu Guinness' Valentine's event at Home House on Tuesday after her Muff Liquor advert was banned by the ASA for 'targeting minors and encouraging irresponsible drinking'
Backlash: The ASA said that Laura's posts were not clearly marked as adverts and implied that alcohol can increase confidence
Her trip out comes and implied that alcohol can increase confidence.
The videos - released in July - featured Whitmore drinking peppermint tea, and then water, beer and 'Muff & tonic', while her dancing became increasingly energetic.
Music in the background included the lyrics: 'I'll be f***ed up if you can't be right here.'
Text on screen stated '#MakemineaMuff' and 'If drinks were dance moves @muffliquorco #makemineamuff #muffboss #irishowned'.
A complainant, who understood that Whitmore was an investor in The Muff Liquor Company, challenged whether the ads were obviously identifiable as marketing communications and were inappropriately targeted because they featured alcoholic drinks.
Whitmore argued that the hashtag 'muffboss' was used to declare her shareholder status and believed that '#ad' would not have been a suitable disclaimer because she was not paid by The Muff Liquor Company for the posts.
However, evden EVe nAkliYAT the ASA ruled that the posts should have been clearly marked as ads.
The ASA also investigated whether the ads encouraged irresponsible drinking because they implied that alcohol could enhance confidence and was capable of changing mood.
Moving on: Despite the controversy, Laura put on a glamourous display for the Lulu Guinness dinner
The ASA noted that Whitmore was the former presenter of Love Island EVDen eVe nAKliyaT - the fifth most-watched programme by those aged four to 15 years old in the second quarter of 2022.
As a result, a large proportion of individuals who were under 18 with TikTok accounts were likely to interact with content related to Love Island on the platform.
In a statement, they explained: 'Even if those individuals did not follow Ms Whitmore, we considered it was likely that the algorithm would determine Ms Whitmore's posts to be of interest to them, meaning they would appear in their 'For You' page.'
Referring to Whitmore's dancing while drinking alcohol, the ASA added: eVDen evE NAKLiyAT 'Whilst we acknowledged that the ads were presented in a light-hearted tone, nonetheless we considered that consumers would interpret the ads to mean that drinking alcohol could precipitate a change in an individual's behaviour and could enhance an individual's confidence.'
Glam: The presenter, 37, sported a black velvet trouser suit paired with a striking patterned shirt which had red lips on it as she posed for pictures
The ASA have ruled that the ads must not appear again.
The Muff Liquor Company have confirmed Whitmore was a shareholder but said she was not paid for the ads and that they asked her to remove the ads within 24 hours of being made aware of the complaint.
They added that 2. Should you loved this short article and you would like to receive more info about EVDeN Eve naKLiYAt assure visit our site. 7 percent of Whitmore's 1.6 million social media followers were under 18 years of age, and therefore understood that the product had not been inappropriately targeted to under-18s.
Since receiving notification of the complaint, they have agreed any of Whitmore's future ads for The Muff Liquor Company will be reviewed by the company before being posted.
Axed: The videos - released in July - featured Whitmore drinking peppermint tea, and then water, beer and 'Muff & tonic', while her dancing became increasingly energetic
TikTok said Whitmore had not used its branded content disclosure tool, even though the post appeared to fall into this category.Instagram said it had no comment on the investigation.
Whitmore has featured The Muff Liquor Company on her social media pages in the past, last year in an April Fool's post.
The Irish presenter became the face of the Donegal drinks brand in 2021 and owns equity in the firm as a shareholder.
She has worked with a number of brands for EvDeN eve naKLiYAT their consumer campaigns, including Blossom Hill, eBay, Laybuy, Bodyform and Dare2b.
End of an era: She has worked with a number of brands for their consumer campaigns and last year announced she'd be stepping down as the host of Love Island
Last year, the mother-of-one announced she'd be stepping down as the host of Love Island, with .
Speaking about her decision to leave, Whitmore took a swipe at her ITV bosses as she claimed that she would still be fronting the show if she'd had more freedom in her role.
She claimed: 'If I could [have done] things the way I wanted to, I'd probably still be doing it.'
She said she struggled to remain impartial while working on the show, admitting she sometimes wanted to voice her opinion on what had happened in the villa and ask the Islanders how they were coping following their stay.
Speaking to Psychologies magazine, Whitmore said of the contestants: 'There was only so much I can do as a host - I couldn't support them or not support them.I couldn't say anything.
'So you kind of have to go quiet, and that was hard for me because I like to be able to have those conversations.
'If I could [have done] things the way I wanted to, I'd probably still be doing it.'
The TV star replaced Caroline Flack as the host of the ITV dating show when she stood down in December 2019.Caroline tragically took her own life aged 40 in February 2020.
Whitmore took to social media after last year's summer season to detail her decision, admitting she found flying back and EvdEn EVE naKliYAT forth from the villa 'very difficult'.
In her statement, Whitmore said she was only planning to fill in for Caroline for one series, .
High praise: Whitmore's Love Island replacement Maya Jama has been lauded by fans after she kicked off the winter show in January
＜更新日時＞ 05月24日（水） 15:15
Head of Epsom College 's husband, who is understood to have killed his wife and seven-year-old daughter before turning his gun on himself, wrote he was 'desperate to do something better with his days' as he set up a doomed wine-importing business, it was revealed last night.
George Pattison, 39, was an accountant with a history of business woes, most recently setting up consultancy firm Tanglewood in 2016, before taking out a £14,000 director's loan in 2021.
In a presentation pitching a wine-importing company, he described himself as 'a career accountant desperate to do something better with his days', The Telegraph reports.
Mr Pattison said he had worked 'in a variety of industries including corporate finance, investment management and financial consultancy'.
It comes as comments from Emma in an interview published in School Management Plus magazine six days before her death emerged, in which she said she was looking forward to an 'exciting future'. She was found dead alongside her husband and their daughter Lettie in their home on school grounds.
Epsom College head Emma Pattison, 45, her husband George, 39, and their seven-year-old daughter Lettie
Police believe Mr Pattison shot his wife and daughter dead before turning the gun on himself
The family was discovered dead at their property within the school grounds at around 1.10am on Sunday, police said, shortly after Mrs Pattison made a distressed phone call to her sister.
Mrs Pattison moved to the college with daughter Lettie in September, while husband George remained in their old £1.5million home in Caterham as its sale went through.
Neighbours said Mr Pattison had been 'flitting between' their old house and the property at Epsom College before the keys were handed to the new owners last month.
It was only then that he moved into the family's new home.
Neighbours described Mr Pattison as reserved and said they often saw him drinking wine alone in the family's Caterham home.
Just hours before the shootings, , who said nothing appeared out of place or unusual between the couple.
Mr Pattison was understood to show no sign of being upset or worried during the evening.
A friend of the family told : 'On Saturday night they threw a dinner party.It was quite an intimate affair and literally turned out to be their last supper.
'Nothing unusual happened. There were no arguments, no indication he would go on to do something so horrific a short time later.'
In an interview published days before her death, Mrs Pattison said she saw the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the independent schools sector as an opportunity.'It could be time to shape a really exciting future for the country,' she said.
She also spoke about plans to open the Surrey school to a wider section of the community by improving access with bursaries.
Mrs Pattison added Covid-19 had brought about 'an absolute sea change' in what parents wanted for their children.
She said: 'They used to talk about results and Oxbridge.That has turned about-face completely since Covid. It's now about well-being, pastoral care, evdeN EVE nAkLiyAT kindness, service and charity.'
She acknowledged challenges for the independent sector, saying: 'The image of the exclusive private school has to be a thing of the past.Exclusivity is a dirty word nowadays.
'The independent schools sector has to offer something very different going forward, for its own pupils and for the social impact it could bring.'
Mrs Pattison added it was charity and impact on the local community which was closest to her heart, saying she wanted her pupils to become 'part of the solution' to society's problems.
Interviewer Zoe MacDougall paid tribute to Mrs Pattison after news of her death emerged, praising her 'warm and easy personality'.
She said: evDEn eVE nakliyat 'Talking to Emma, it was clear that service and kindness were core values.Her vision was for her pupils to learn truths about the world around them, in preparation for the adults that she hoped they would become: people who would play leading roles in society with understanding, evdEn Eve NAKliYat compassion and integrity.
'I found her inspirational.'
Mrs Pattison with her daughter Lettie.The seven-year-old has been described as a 'little angel' and 'perfect in every way' following her death on Sunday morning
Mrs Pattison moved to the college with daughter Lettie in September, while husband George, 39, remained in their old £1. In case you have any kind of questions with regards to in which as well as the way to make use of EvdeN Eve nakliyat, it is possible to e mail us from our own webpage. 5million property in Caterham as its sale went through Pictured: Mrs Pattison outside Croydon High School, where she worked prior to her new role in Epsom
It emerged yesterday that Mrs Pattison made a distressed phone call to her sister Deborah Kirk in the early hours of Sunday morning, just minutes before she would be shot dead.
Ms Kirk immediately jumped into a car and drove out to the college in Surrey, but arrived too late and discovered her sister's body as well as those of her husband George and Lettie.
Surrey Police confirmed they believe Mr Pattison shot his wife and daughter dead before turning the weapon on himself, and that no third party was involved in the killings.
The force has referred itself to the independent watchdog over the triple shooting after it emerged they had been in touch with Mr Pattison just days before.
The killer had held a shotgun licence for many years and officers had called him to check on the storage for his firearm last Thursday.Officers did not visit the premises.
Home Office regulations state that gun owners must notify police of any change of address as soon as they move.
In December, Mrs Pattison told a student podcast that her move had been 'a really big change for my family', adding: 'I've got a new job, my husband got a new job, which wasn't meant to happen, but did, and my daughter has started a new school.'
Mrs Pattison had only become head of the prestigious college five months ago, and was the first woman to hold the role
Mrs Pattison's frantic call to her sister Deborah Kirk (pictured together) and her husband prompted relatives to jump into a car and drive out to her in Surrey
Emma Pattison with her husband George at a school function
A police vehicle outside Epsom College in Surrey on Monday following the three deaths in an apparent murder-suicide
A neighbour of the family in Caterham told MailOnline: 'It's horrific what's happened at the college.I never heard any arguing or anything like that when they lived here.
'They appeared to have it all - a nice house, good jobs and lots of money.
'As well as the BMW, George also drove a Jaguar XR and an Audi S5.They'd also spent a lot of money doing up the house.
'When they first moved in it was quite a scruffy granny-style house but they'd extended the kitchen and landscaped the back garden as well as improving the front of the house.
＜更新日時＞ 05月24日（水） 14:51
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An insider told that bosses are hoping to secure her long-term future on the show after they feared she would quit.
The source said: ' has some phenomenal programming ideas built around Susanna for later this year, all ones to which she has typically very proactively contributed to and helped build and inspire, so why would she walk away from them?'
Details surrounding the filming are not yet known but a number of programme ideas are said to be in the works.
MailOnline has reached out to Good Morning Britain for comment.
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A redacted email exchange Lyne Barlow had with a customer about her pretend cancer
Travel agent Lyne Barlow (left) arrives at Durham Crown Court to be sentenced for defrauding friends, family and hundreds of customers who bought holidays from her in a £2.6 million con
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She also mocked up bank statement from Barclays which appeared to show that her mother's money was in fact growing rather than disappearing.
Barlow also took her mum away on lavish holidays along with her children, a boy and a girl.
However it emerged the reason for this was, Evden eve NAkLiYAT on some occasions, that Barlow knew through the intercepted post, that bailiffs were due to turn up at her mum's house and she didn't want her to find out.
Mrs Coleman was left penniless by a daughter who used part of her money to set up Lyne Barlow Independent Travel in Stanley, County Durham.
Barlow offered holidays at astonishing prices to drum up trade.
Customers were able to snap up all inclusive trips to Dubai for just
£500 and word quickly spread of her extraordinary bargains.
The bubble quickly burst as families saw their hard earned money vanish on holidays that they never got to take.
Some paid up to £5,500 to arrive at their destination and discover no funds had been received by the hotel so there were no rooms booked.
Others arrived to discover they had no place on the return flight and were stranded abroad until they could find their own way back.
Eventually a Facebook group was set up by furious victims of Barlow's scam and an agreement reached to go to Durham Police en masse.
There were so many calls to the force's HQ that they had to be directed to an email address because emergency callers would have been unable to get through.
In total Barlow could be proven to have defrauded family, friends and customers out of £1.2m, but investigators believe the total sum she gained over a period of five years from 2015 to 2020 was £2.6m.
Barlow admitted theft, 10 counts of fraud and possessing criminal property at Durham Crown Court and was jailed for nine years.
Judge Joanne Kidd told her: 'You have presented yourself to those who knew you as a charming an engaging woman.
'You are clearly a woman with significant intellectual ability but you also have an extraordinary talent for dishonesty.
Her first victims were family and friends and she used their savings before setting up an independent travel agency, in which she fraudulently sold holidays, reporting them to be ATOL and ABTA protected, the force said.(Pictured: stock image of a beach)
'You mercilessly abused the trust of your nearest and dearest in their darkest hours and set about targeting other vulnerable people of your acquaintance who trusted you in order to satisfy your relatively lavish lifestyle.
'This involved lavish holidays, an expensive car and designer goods.
'The extent of the betrayal of your own mother is truly breathtaking.
'As you gallivanted around your mother's utility bills went unpaid and county court judgements rained down upon her.
'Bailiffs visited her home, unbeknown to her because you deviously arranged to take her away on visits on the days they were to arrive.
'I take the view that you are a thoroughly callous individual.'
Tony Davis, mitigating, said: 'Once she began riding the monster of deceit it was inevitable it would come crashing down and it did.'
Barlow squandered the cash handed to her on designer clothes, prestige cars and holidays for her and her immediate family, with exclusive breaks in Dubai being her chosen retreat.
The charges stated that Barlow made false representations by purporting to be an ABTA and ATOL registered travel agent when in fact she was using criminal cash to finance further frauds.
Money handed over by customers was being used to pay for holidays that subsequent clients booked through her, in a Ponzi-type scheme.
But her jugging over other people's cash came crashing down in 2020 when police were called in.
Furious customers were arriving at her home even as officers moved in to arrest her.
She used her 'cancer' as a shield to fend off angry people she had conned.
In an email she told one customer who was chasing a refund for a
holiday: 'Unfortunately I've just found out my cancer has spread and it's gone to stage 3/4 in my bones and need to have chemo out into my spine to stop it from getting into my brain. It's going to be pretty intense.'
Detective Sergeant Alan Meehan from Durham Police Complex Fraud Team led the investigation.
He said: 'At the time of her arrest we were aware that she was telling people she had cancer and evdeN evE nakLiyAt at that time we kept an open mind on whether that was correct or not not.
'As part of the investigation we asked to access her medical records and it was only then that the truth emerged that she had been making the whole thing up.
'It was a determined and calculated attempt to distract attention from her crimes and deflect blame away from her because she hoped people would feel sorry for her.
'The lengths she went to were very unusual.It came as a massive shock to her husband that she did not in fact have cancer.
'She wore a scarf over her head and appeared to be losing her hair, although we believe she was cutting off strands and scattering it across her pillow at night to keep up that deception.
'Members of her family were even taking her to hospital appointments that never existed.
When she was first arrested in September 2020 she presented as a very frail and sick woman, walking with a stick and with her head in a black scarf to cover the apparent hair loss.
'Once confronted by the medical information she had no option but to admit she'd been lying.
'The second custody photograph from when she was re-arrested in 2021 show the true picture, with no sign or suggestion of illness.
'In our opinion it's a serious aggravating factor in the largest case of fraud this force has ever dealt with.
'Lyne Barlow was trying to attain a lifestyle she could not afford and rather than stop as she got out of her depth she continued to take money from more and more victims.
'The number of calls we received on this case was unprecedented and once they started coming in they were so many that we had to set up a dedicated email as the control room was in danger of being overrun.'
James Lewis, of the Crown Prosecution Service said: 'Barlow acted with greed, using false promises and deceptive lies, to convince family and friends, as well as hundreds of customers, who all trusted her, to part with their money so that she could sustain her own lavish lifestyle.
'Fraud is an insidious crime and the cost to the many victims in this case has not just been financial; it has also caused huge emotional distress and extreme disappointment to devastated customers who had to find out their holiday did not actually exist at a time when the country was in the grips of the Covid-19 pandemic.
'Thanks to the thorough investigation by Durham Police and to all the victims who came forward to report her, we were able to bring Barlow to justice.
'We will now be taking steps to recover this money taken through Proceeds of Crime legislation.'
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