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FRAUD victim Beverly Lawton has been told to pay back 18,000 to the bank after she gave the money a former friend who tricked her by claiming she was dying of cancer.

Over a number of years, Ms Lawton gave around 80,000 to con artist Catherine Moreton, after falling for her sob story that she had only months to live and needed money to pay for private cancer treatment.

In fact, Moreton just wanted the cash to pay off her mortgage.

Moreton, aged 59, of Sharman Close, Stoke, was jailed for two years in October after admitting three counts of fraud.

But now Ms Lawton has been told by the Co-operative Bank that she must pay back 18,000 she authorised to be paid to Moreton on a Visa card..

Mother-of-two Ms Lawton, aged 57, of Lightwood, said: "They are chasing after me for the money. I have to pay about 18,000 to the Co-op.

"I have already lost my savings by giving it to Moreton, but now I am having to pay out again. I can't understand it. I haven't had any of that money, she had it.

"Meanwhile she will be out of prison in a few months and free to get on with her life.

"I set up payments for her because I had good credit. A lot of the time I would take out money from the ATM machine, to give to her, often on my Visa card.

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