NSW woman faked cancer to get out of jail

A NSW woman who faked cancer to escape punishment for assaulting another woman has finally been jailed.

Leanne Tracey Church, from Hill End, shaved her head and told her friends she had bowel cancer after being charged with attacking general store manager Donna-lee King at a pub in 2006, the Daily Telegraph reports.

She even held a fundraiser that raised $200 for her “treatment”.

When Church was sentenced for the assault she received a three-year good behaviour bond.

Magistrate John Hodgson told her: “The only thing stopping you from going to jail is because of your medical condition.”

But Ms King was suspicious and called around some local treatment centres who said Church had never been a patient.

Church was given a 16-month sentence for perverting the course of justice, which she appealed.

The appeal was denied in the Supreme Court this week.


Source: Daily Telegraph
Author: Will Jackson. Approving editor: Henri Paget.

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