Fake student cons parents out of £250k

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Devon and Cornwall Constabulary




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Nicola Boardman fagged the money on holidays, drugs, and a mystery union



A charwoman who cheated her parents out of £250,000 by pretence to survey at Oxford University patch disbursal thousands on holidays and a arcanum matrimony, has been confined.

Nicola Boardman, a quondam diacetylmorphine hook, likewise worn-out approximately of the money on drugs, Truro Diadem Courtroom heard. Her parents aforementioned the ordeal had "devastated" their lives. Boardman, 34, who pleaded hangdog to one reckon of fake, was captive for tercet age and foursome months. The courtyard heard Boardman, of Trelander E, Truro, had been addicted to diacetylmorphine as a teen but took office in reclamation.

She went on to garner a offset family point in mixer sciences at Camborne College in Cornwall but subsequently barbarous into the incorrect crew and relapsed, the tribunal heard. 'All made up' She told her parents she cherished to do a PhD and claimed she had interviews at both Cambridge and Oxford universities, and was after recognized at Oxford. Notwithstanding, Philip Lee, prosecuting, aforesaid "this was all made up".









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Dog and Marilyn Boardman gave up their jobs and sold their dwelling to stock Boardman's hypothetical studies

Likewise as support her conjectural studies o'er a catamenia of quatern days, Boardman's parents likewise nonrecreational for "fraud university trips" to Mongolia and Greece, the tribunal heard. Dog and Marilyn Boardman gave up their jobs and sold their abode, believing their girl's claims that she would piddle £3m on the force of her donnish workplace and get the money.

Boardman dog-tired £10,000 on a union to a man from Redruth whom she knew her sept "detested", with no kinsfolk members invited, the lawcourt heard. She so became meaning and told her parents that she had a miscarriage and invited them to a "fake" ceremonial where the ashes were unconnected, in an assay to profit encourage understanding. 'Advanced functioning' Mr Lee aforementioned: "The suspect after admitted to the constabulary that she had lied around that and her gestation had been concluded in May." It was alone abaft Boardman went lacking that her engender base a notation confessing to her relapsing and arcanum wedlock. The homage heard she had dog-tired a summate of £250,000 of her parents' money, and they had no finances for their retreat or to expend on their early two children. Justice James Dingemans aforementioned it was a "elongated" and "advanced" procedure.

He added that it was another instance of the "death caused to companionship because of the use of drugs".