Pamela Gwinnett raided £300,000 from the life savings of vulnerable pensioner Joan Green while pretending to be her friend and carer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
She spent 89-year-old Joan's money on luxuries including expensive meals and beauty treatments like Botox.
Gwinnett was originally handed a six-year prison sentence for fraud by abuse of position and theft - but she had already fled to Tenerife. She ended up being on the run for more than a year.
After Sky News tracked her down, Gwinnett was arrested in Tenerife last month and sentenced at Preston Crown Court on Monday to six years and two months in prison.
Judge Michael Maher told Gwinnett: "You have treated this process as you did Joan Green - with utter contempt".
The judge said she "continued to besmirch Joan's family" from abroad.
"I regard that as cowardly," he added, before thanking journalists for keeping the case in the public eye.
Sky News confronted Gwinnett at a picturesque apartment block on the island where she'd been living. Neighbours there saw her swimming in the communal pool and enjoying the sun when she should have been in prison.
We asked her why she had defrauded Joan. She said she'd done nothing wrong. "Did I heck take the money!" she said.
The judge who previously sentenced Gwinnett said she had treated Joan as "a cash cow to be milked until she was dry".
Speaking after Monday's sentencing hearing, Joan's step-grandson David Bolton said Gwinnett had caused "an immense deal of stress, upset, and heartache". His wife Rebecca added that "it was great to finally see justice served".
Gwinnett was finally extradited from Tenerife last week. Sky News joined Greater Manchester Police as they swooped in to arrest her as she got off a plane with National Crime Agency officers at Manchester Airport.
We asked her if she regretted taking the money and if she wanted to apologise to Joan's family, but she remained silent - only nodding when asked if she was still intending to appeal her conviction and sentence.
Joan, from Chorley, Lancashire, died in 2022.
Gwinnett had convinced her to transfer her lasting power of attorney, giving her significant control over her finances.
During Gwinnett's trial in her absence, jurors were shown a video secretly filmed by Joan's stepgrandson David Bolton of a row he had with Gwinnett at Joan's home.
In the footage, Gwinnett shouts: "This is nothing to do with you - I'm power of attorney."
When the family say she doesn't speak for Joan, she yells: "Yes I do!"
When Gwinnett was finally arrested in Tenerife, Mr Bolton told Sky News: "We are pleased that Pamela Gwinnett has finally been arrested and will now be held accountable for what she did to my nan.
"However, it has taken far too long to reach this point."
At least 72 migrants died, including some who drowned and others who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier, Spanish authorities said on Sunday, while Morocco reported 11 deaths on its side of the border.
Spain estimates that around 69,500 of the migrants have returned to Morocco over the past four days, exceeding initial estimates of about 50,000 arrivals in Ceuta on Thursday.
Many of them fled due to shop closures, receiving a hostile response from locals and being unable to travel on to the Spanish mainland.
Between 3,000 and 5,000 migrants remained in the enclave, Ceuta's president Juan Jesus Vivas told broadcaster Telecinco, adding that its two migrant reception centres - one for adults and another for minors - had "collapsed".
The city was processing 862 migrant minors, who enjoy special legal protections from deportation, local official Alberto Gaitan said.
Hundreds of migrants set up camp on a beach in Ceuta on Monday as local authorities struggled to cope with the thousands who had stayed in the tiny territory.
Video showed scores of migrants, most of them from sub-Saharan Africa, lying on El Trampolin beach. Many were wrapped in towels to shelter from the wind, while army and police vehicles patrolled the road behind them.
Meanwhile, Spanish authorities were continuing to search for bodies in the waters that tens of thousands of migrants had breached days earlier.
The migration crisis in Ceuta is being investigated by Spain's top court - the Audiencia Nacional - Sky News understands.
The high court's Judge Maria Tardon has ordered the Spanish National Police's Central Unit for Illegal Immigration (UCRIF) to file a report with the Spanish Public Prosecutor on "the massive irregular entry of citizens from Moroccan territory that has taken place in Ceuta in recent days, especially on July 30 and 31".
This will allow it to clarify "whether the event was a concerted action directed by any criminal organisation or group, and to gather any identifying information on those who may have participated in such actions, if there is any evidence of this".
The judge has opened preliminary proceedings for possible crimes against the security and independence of the Spanish state.
The crisis has sparked anti-immigration rhetoric across Europe and diplomatic tensions within the European Union over border policy, with Spain accusing some partners of an unhelpful and polarising response.
On Friday, Italy temporarily suspended its open-border Shengen agreement with Spain, re-imposing border controls for air and sea.
Foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Monday that Spain had previously supported other EU countries during migration crises and now expected them to respond in turn.
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The bloc has called an emergency video conference meeting of interior ministers on Tuesday to discuss the crisis.
Morocco's Interior Ministry on Sunday said the rush of migrants was caused by social media misinformation, human trafficking networks and misinterpretation of a Spanish court ruling banning immediate returns of migrants intercepted at sea.
Spanish intelligence services have concluded that Morocco did not plan the mass crossing, but allowed it to happen, according to reports by El Pais and Cadena SER radio, citing officials familiar with the matter.
Moroccan border controls were gradually eased during July and were allegedly removed as migrants surged towards the Tarajal crossing during Morocco's Throne Day holiday, the reports said.
Lettuce from Mexico served in Taco Bell restaurants is believed to be to blame, though the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) is looking at other potential sources.
The two deaths - the first linked to the current US outbreak - were announced by Michigan's health department on Monday.
They said both people had underlying health conditions that may have been significant.
Nine states have been affected so far and 11,000 cases have been identified in Michigan alone - up from 461 in Friday's update.
Nearly 200 people have been hospitalised in the state.
The cyclospora parasite spreads through food or water contaminated with human faeces.
This often happens when produce, such as salad leaves and unpeeled fruit, is washed with contaminated water.
Taco Bell has said it's no longer using iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms - the company that produced it - while other similar lettuce products have been recalled.
"Explosive diarrhoea" is one of the main symptoms of cyclospora, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).
Others include abdominal cramping, bloating, nausea, flatulence, low-grade fever, loss of appetite and weight loss.
The UKHSA warned last week over a "sharp rise" in infections in holidaymakers returning from Mexico. Over 130 cases were recorded between 30 April and 15 July - significantly higher than the annual average of 93.
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It advises travellers to Mexico to only drink bottled water and make sure their food is thoroughly cooked "even when staying in high-end all-inclusive resorts".
It also advises skipping salad items, berries, unpeeled fruit and herbs. Ice in drinks is another potential source of infection.
The NHS says the infection normally subsides "within a few days or weeks" and that sufferers should try to stay hydrated by having lots of fluid.
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Benjamin Lewis, who is fascinated with vampires and satanism, previously pleaded guilty to five counts of religiously aggravated harassment and two counts of theft of lambs between February and August 2025.
Southampton Crown Court heard lambs were stolen from two small Hampshire farms and Lewis, 48, had killed them by cutting their throats before dumping their bodies at four churches.
Laura Deuxberry, prosecuting, said a deer's head was found with an inverted wooden cross at St Theresa's Church in Totton, Southampton, followed by a lamb being placed on a light fixture below a statue of Mary along with another inverted cross in February 2025.
At Christ Church in Emery Down, Lewis also dumped a headless deer during February followed at a later date by a deer's head being put in the pulpit on top of a cross which had been moved from the altar.
Lewis, of Totton, also targeted St Peter's Church in Bramshaw, where a dead lamb was put on a flagpole with a tarot card next to it, and a deer's head "crawling with maggots" was placed on a pew later.
A lamb was placed on a tree stump with an inverted stone cross next to it at Christ's Church in Colbury, Ms Deuxberry said.
A deer's head with an inverted cross was put on the gates of the Anchor House mental health facility in Totton where Lewis had previously been treated, according to the prosecutor.
After Lewis was arrested, deer blood was found in the boot of his car, with mixed animal blood in the vehicle, Ms Deuxberry added.
She said when police searched his home, officers found satanic symbols and ritual notes as well as sketches of vampires and "concerning books about vampires and how best to kill humans".
A suitcase containing inverted crosses and images of "people cutting and sucking blood from each other" was also discovered.
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Judge William Mousley KC said that "these offences taken together would otherwise have justified substantial sentences of imprisonment", as he ordered Lewis to be detained in hospital with restrictions.
He had been diagnosed with severe autism and obsessive-compulsive disorder as well as mixed personality disorder and a mild learning disability, consultant forensic psychiatrist Dr Gauruv Malhan told the court.
Lewis, who appeared via videolink, told the court after he was sentenced: "I want to just apologise to the victims because they said they were worried about me if I was to come out, I do not want people to worry about me."
He was also convicted of religious harassment in 2003 in the first case of its kind in the country.
Michael Henry was reportedly in a two-person boat when it capsized near Boulmer on the evening of 7 July.
The other man swam to a buoy and was picked up by coastguard, but despite a days-long search, rescuers couldn't find Mr Henry.
Northumbria Police has now confirmed his body was located off the Blyth coast on 26 July.
It has been formally identified, and a report has been sent to the coroner.
Mr Henry's family said he was a "keen sportsman who loved the outdoors" and a "much-loved son, brother, grandson, nephew, team-mate and friend".
They said the teenager - from the Rothbury area - was preparing to go travelling this summer and hoping to go to university the next academic year.
Thanking emergency services, they added: "Michael will be forever in our thoughts, and we will miss him."
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