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Ghanaian Fraudster Jailed Seven Years In The UK – Ran A Scam Where She Pretended To Be Crippled And Took Compensation From The Government As Well As Other Scams

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A Ghanaian woman living in the UK, Angel Jackson (an alias), has been sentenced to seven years in jail for a series of fraudulent schemes covering over ten years and which reaped her over £191,000 from the government in benefits claims and property valued at £1m.
Jackson carried out numerous scams of varied levels of complexity, including pretending to have suffered crippling injuries from a car accident which confined her to a wheelchair to claim support from the authorities. She was arrested after CCTV cameras spotted her working out on a treadmill in one of her numerous, fraudulently acquired properties.
Jackson ran a multifaceted, ten year scam that included marrying another UK national, Thomas Duffy, who she exploited to buy properties, sometimes in his name and sometimes in hers. The poor man never had s*x even once with his wife and was always kept as a prop to aid her fraud.

Jackson bought a house with her husband in August 2002 – “while still claiming housing benefit – and going behind his back to obtain his UK residency to support her own.” MailOnline reported.

“The pair had married on Valentines Day 2002, but she stopped him from telling his family and yet she didn’t even allow him to live with her.

 “This was very far from a happy, new marriage, as not only did Mr Duffy not live with his wife, but the marriage wasn’t ever consummated.” Prosecutor Francesca Levett told Croydon Crown Court.

“The court heard that ‘whenever he needed to sign something presented to him by his wife, his glasses would disappear’. Ms Levett said: ‘It appears that Mr Duffy was used by his wife to purchase a property she had no intention of sharing with him.'”

MailOnline details more of Jackson’s fraud…

Jackson, who already owned a house in Mitcham, south London, bought two swanky flats in the same block, complete with its own gym, in Croydon in 2005 for more than £300,000, and fraudulently claimed housing benefit for each of them.

She also tried to wring every penny in compensation from two car accidents using invented passengers, only to be caught when doctors spotted two separate x-rays on two separate claims were almost identical.

In June 2007, an ‘Angel Duffy’ (apparently another alias) claimed for an apparent car accident in which she had suffered whiplash and a burned ankle while her husband was driving.

She claimed that her friend, ‘Angel Jackson’, her daughter Latoya and another friend named Fifi were also injured in the crash.

Jackson said she had employed a carer called Hannah, Ms Levett said, adding: ‘Hannah apparently provided care for Angel and Latoya for an impossible 27 hours a day.

‘Their total claim for care and assistance was over £53,000 for a ten month period.’

Jackson also claimed £24,000 for an osteopath, falsified evidence of which was found on her computer.

Prosecutor Francesca Levett told Croydon Crown Court Jackson had lied to the local authorities and the DWP for more than a decade and defrauded the authorities out of £191,414.

In July 2005, Jackson bought another property, a £150,000 flat in south London, in her husband’s name, without him knowing – and two months later bought another flat in the same building, this time in her own name, for £152,500.

Ms Levett said: ‘Not only did she fail to notify the authorities that she had purchased yet another property, but she then applied for housing benefit, claiming that she lived there and did not own her own property.’

She lied to her husband that home they owned together was being repossessed and that he had to move out – all to support a claim she had made on a housing benefit form.

Ms Levett said: ‘Mr Duffy describes himself as so confused and afraid. He had lost everything, yet still the defendant collected his wages every week.

‘He was depressed and fragile, frightened to open his door.’

Although the authorities believe she is Ghanaian, Ms Levett told the jury: ‘We do not actually know the true identity of the defendant, nor do we know her true date of birth.’

Jackson was convicted on 32 charges related to her ten year fraudulent campaign – and sentenced to four-and-a-half years for the fraud, two years for creating false documents, and six months for evicting tenants during another of her scams.

“You are a thoroughly dishonest person. You are a professional fraudster. It is your life’s work.” Judge Adam Hiddleston said during sentencing.

“You have taken and taken and taken and it would appear, you have never given anything back.

“How many school places or hospital beds could have been provided by the local authorities with the money you took?” he wondered.



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