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The Sting.
Was the woman who moved Holly and Phil with her sob story of having dementia at 39 nothing but a fraud? Trio 'scammed council out of £734,000' after This Morning guest's mother faked a neurological illness
This week, Laura and Philip Borrell, of Weston, Herts - along with her mother, Frances Noble - admitted pulling off one of the most lucrative and audacious stings ever perpetrated against a local authority. And they did it, according to fraud investigators, by exaggerating a neurological illness. This time the supposed sufferer was 66-year-old Noble. Between 2005 and 2018, she allegedly convinced Hertfordshire County Council that she was suffering from such a serious condition that she required intensive home care at her bungalow in Datchworth, near Stevenage. The council awarded her a 'direct payment care package' which allows people with disabilities, or their family members and friends, to choose carers and equipment and settle the bills themselves using a pre-paid credit card. Prosecutors say Noble claimed care costing £733,936.20 over the 13 years. The trio are said to have kept the money, or a substantial portion of it, for themselves. (Main: the Borrells on This Morning, with Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield; the couple are also bottom left inset; right inset: Laura Borrell on one of her foreign trips.)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10791393/Was-Morning-guest-sob-story-having-dementia-39-fraud.html
This week, Laura and Philip Borrell, of Weston, Herts - along with her mother, Frances Noble - admitted pulling off one of the most lucrative and audacious stings ever perpetrated against a local authority. And they did it, according to fraud investigators, by exaggerating a neurological illness. This time the supposed sufferer was 66-year-old Noble. Between 2005 and 2018, she allegedly convinced Hertfordshire County Council that she was suffering from such a serious condition that she required intensive home care at her bungalow in Datchworth, near Stevenage. The council awarded her a 'direct payment care package' which allows people with disabilities, or their family members and friends, to choose carers and equipment and settle the bills themselves using a pre-paid credit card. Prosecutors say Noble claimed care costing £733,936.20 over the 13 years. The trio are said to have kept the money, or a substantial portion of it, for themselves. (Main: the Borrells on This Morning, with Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield; the couple are also bottom left inset; right inset: Laura Borrell on one of her foreign trips.)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10791393/Was-Morning-guest-sob-story-having-dementia-39-fraud.html
Comments
People who blatantly abuse the system like this make my blood boil. Although I do have to admit that the system often makes it easy.
We could legally claim and probably get extra but it would be morally wrong and therefore in our eyes dishonest.
The system is there so that Alison and myself are not penalised for her disabilities NOT so we can live extravagently whilst others work hard to have the same lifestyle.
People like this are scum.