Barlow also claimed to be suffering from a terminal illness while she was selling the holidays, Durham Crown Court heard in October last year<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When Barlow was arrested in 2020 she hobbled into the police station with her head swathed in a scarfe and walking with a stick.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Barlow stooped so low as to defraud her own mother, Susan Coleman, 64, out of \u00a3500,000 – part of which came from an insurance payout following the untimely death of her father, Barry.<\/p>\n

The rest was NHS ward sister Mrs Coleman’s retirement payout and savings, eVden eVE naKLiyat which Barlow told her she’d invested in a business venture which would make her mother rich.<\/p>\n

Barlow took over her grieving mother’s financial affairs as she struggled to come to terms with losing her husband in 2015.<\/p>\n

As she systematically emptied her mother’s accounts she intercepted her post to stop her getting bank statements.<\/p>\n