- A British woman is going to prison after lying about having cancer to collect money to finance her marriage, according to the New York Post.
- In a lie that began three years ago, Toni Standen told her friends that she had cancer to help raise money for her dream wedding ceremony, The Mirror reported.
- The judge sentenced Standen to 5 months behind bars, according to The Sun.
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A British woman must spend several months in prison after pretending to be diagnosed with cancer to collect enough money to perform the wedding ceremony of her dreams, deceiving not only her close friends, but also her now husband.
Toni Standen, 29, was sentenced to five months in prison for pretending to be ill, according to the New York Post. She started her fraudulent claims that cancer spread throughout my body three years ago in news publications, according to the NY Post.
“It went to my brain, my bones – it’s everywhere,” said Standen, according to the vehicle.
Earlier this year, Standen said he was only two months old, according to Sun.
The Mirror reported that Standen’s final request was for his father to accompany her to the altar at her wedding.
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To help Standen – who was unemployed – his friends started a GoFundMe in an effort to raise enough money for the occasion to provide “Toni and Jim the wedding they deserve” last year, Sun reported.
The fundraiser was able to raise more than $ 11,000 to finance his wedding plans, which included a honeymoon in Turkey, a day his father was unable to live because he passed away before the ceremony, as reported by the Sun .
According to the Mirror, people started to question Standen’s diagnosis when she started traveling around Europe with her husband, and then she claimed that she had contracted COVID-19. When questioned by her friends, she admitted her inventions.
“We called her for a three-way conversation and recorded it. We asked directly, ‘Do you really have cancer?’ a friend of Standen’s told the Mirror. “She started to cry and admitted it was all a lie. We ended the call and immediately called the police.”
“You invented a disease to win your friends ‘sympathy and sat watching while they raised money to support you,” District Judge Nicholas Sanders told Standen at Chester Magistrates’ Court while he was convicted of fraud, according to the Sun.
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