Couple who cashed in on mother’s Hertfordshire health scam jailed

Laura and Philip Borrell benefited from Frances Noble, 66, defrauding council of 624,000 by faking illness

A couple who enjoyed holidays abroad with money from a relative who faked being bedridden to scam a local authority out of more than 624,000 have been jailed.

Earlier this year, Frances Noble, 66, was sentenced at St Albans crown court to four years and nine months in jail for defrauding Hertfordshire county council of 624,047.50 by pretending she was bedridden, unable to feed herself and needed round-the-clock care between 15 January 2007 and 26 November 2018.