Updated: 11 Feb 2021, 10:11
A MUM who faked cancer to swindle more than £52,000 from well-wishers to splurge on holidays sobbed as she was jailed today.
Nicole Elkabbas, 42, claimed she needed to pay for life-saving ovarian cancer treatment - then splashed donations on her lavish lifestyle.
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Nicole Elkabbas, 42, posted a pic claiming to show her stricken in hospital - but was from a previous operation to remove her gallbladderCredit: PA:Press Association
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She splurged on football tickets and gambling and took six trips to Spain for treatment Credit: INS News
Elkabbas, of Broadstairs, Kent, set up a GoFundMe page to rake in thousand of pounds in donations before funnelling the funds into her own account.
Cancer faker Nicole Elkabbas jailed after Gofundme scam
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Updated: 16:44, 10 February 2021
A fantasist cancer faker who pocketed £50,000 of donations to fund a gambling addiction has today been jailed.
Nicole Elkabbas, 42, from Broadstairs, spent well-wishersâ money on jaunts abroad, hotels, restaurants and almost £4,000 on a box at Tottenham Hotspur after gambling £63,000 in a year.
Nicole Elkabbas
The former Harrods fashion consultant baited almost 700 victims by posting a bogus picture of herself in a hospital bed on GoFundMe in 2017.
Handing Elkabbas a two years and nine months prison sentence, Judge Mark Weekes told the fraudster her allegations were pure wild fantasy and a deliberate deceit.
Kent and Canterbury Hospital theatre nurse Terry Boston-Marsh dies after contracting Covid-19
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A much-loved theatre nurse with a heart of gold has died after contracting Covid-19.
Terry Boston-Marsh - who worked at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital for 25 years - lost his battle with the virus on Friday. He was 54.
Theatre nurse Terry Boston-Marsh was described as one of the best
His family, friends and colleagues have been left devastated by his death.
Mum Marlene Tupp said: âTerry was the sort of son everyone would have wanted.
âHe was so kind and thoughtful. I only had to mention something I was interested in and Terry would buy it for me.
Life-saving Covid oxygen readers making a difference in Kent
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Updated: 12:36, 03 February 2021
Hundreds of lives could be saved with oxygen pulse readers that have been rolled out across the county amid fears of a hidden symptom of coronavirus.
A trait of Covid known as silent hypoxia can leave a person feeling relatively well, despite blood oxygen levels dropping to dangerous levels. To track this, the NHS in Kent have distributed 5,000 small devices called pulse oximeters.
Silent hypoxia can leave a person feeling relatively well, despite blood oxygen levels dropping to dangerous levels. Stock picture: iStock image
The devices are placed on a person s finger and used to measure blood oxygen levels. Any severe Covid cases can be identified early and referred to hospital.