A FOURTH woman who was part of a gang who committed large-scale fraud offences across Cheshire and the North West has been jailed. Sonia Malhi appeared at Carlisle Crown Court on Friday, January 29, where she was sentenced to 20 months in prison. The 38-year-old of Hobson Crescent, Audenshaw, had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud, theft, possession of a weapon in a public place and possession of class A drugs (cocaine). She also admitted a second conspiracy to commit fraud – which related a separate investigation by Cumbria Police. Three sisters - Sarah Burdon, 40, Lynsey Burdon, 36, and Emmiline Burdon, 29, – were sentenced to a total of four-and-a-half years in prison at Chester Crown Court on Tuesday, August 4, last year as part of the same investigation.