Charity fraud woman's appeal thrown out

A woman who made almost £170,000 from benefits fraud and a fake horse charity and refused to attend court for her sentencing, vowing she'd never repay the money, has had an appeal against her jail term thrown out.

Wendy Megson was sent to prison for 39 months after being found guilty of a total of 13 theft, fraud and benefits fraud offences last June - and ordered to pay more than £200,000 in costs and compensation.

The 63 year old appealed against her sentence, claiming oppression, tyranny, libel, defamation, false  imprisonment, kidnap, prejudice, entrapment, fraud and abuse of process.

Judge of Appeal Cross and Acting Deemster Sir Nigel Teare said her sentence was fair given how serious the offences were and she'd refused to cooperate - saying she'd serve her entire sentence rather than pay back any cash.

They dismissed her appeal.