Nicole Boardman
A woman conned her parents the sum of 250,000 pounds (N71m) by pretending she was studying at Oxford University, a court heard.
Instead, she lavished the money on holidays, drugs and a secret wedding, The Mirror reports.
It was gathered that Nicola Boardman had told her parents she
needed the funds for a large research project with the possibility of
her earning £3 million once it had finished.
The 34-year-old's parents, Frank and Marilyn, had believed her and
given up their jobs and sold their home in the belief their daughter was
soon to become rich. They gave her all the proceeds for her to achieve
her dreams and possibly help them in the future.
In fact, she had tricked her father who drove her to what she told
him were interviews at Oxford and Cambridge - all were cheap scams.
Not done yet, the rascal later told them she had been offered a place at Oxford to study a PhD in Social Sciences.
It was gathered that the woman who earned a first-class degree in
social science at Camborne College in Cornwall followed the wrong crowd
who introduced her to drugs. She became an addict. Boardman spent
£10,000 on a wedding to a man from Redruth without inviting any of her
family, the court heard.
After aborting a pregnancy, she told her parents she had a stillbirth and invited them to a ceremony to scatter ashes.
Mr Justice James Dingemans told the court: "This is another evidence-based example of the destruction caused to society by the use of drugs."
She pleaded guilty to fraud and was sentenced to three years and
four months at Truro Crown Court after opening up to her parents about
the deceit.
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