The 'devious' amateur actress persuaded her friend to pretend to be her dead father in a £740,000 benefit scam
Ethel McGill arrived at Liverpool Crown Court in a wheelchair carrying incontinence pads
She also feigned dementia and claimed she needed a wheelchair, Liverpool Crown Court heard on Monday.The court heard the con unravelled when investigators filmed her walking and driving.Judge Steven Everett told her:"Part of your problem is that nobody, including me, believes that you are ill, and that you have been putting this on for years."
She had asked a friend to lie in bed and pretend to be her father when the authorities visited, the court heard.Ethel McGill was caught by investigators who filmed her walking and driving
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