{"id":112771,"date":"2021-02-14T08:56:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T08:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=112771"},"modified":"2021-02-14T08:56:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T08:56:06","slug":"gang-of-sisters-bought-clothes-booze-after-lavish-80k-credit-card-fraud-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/gang-of-sisters-bought-clothes-booze-after-lavish-80k-credit-card-fraud-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang of sisters bought clothes, booze after lavish \u00a380k credit card fraud spree"},"content":{"rendered":"
A gang of crooked sisters who used Liverpool as their playground and went on a spree of credit card fraud have been ordered to pay back nearly \u00a380,000.<\/p>\n
Burdon siblings Emmiline, 29, Sarah, 40 and Lynsey, 36, from Manchester, were jailed last summer for their string of crimes.<\/p>\n
The devious trio pinched merchant receipts from restaurants, hotels and beauticians to get their hands on other people's card details, Liverpool Echo reports.<\/p>\n
Then they splashed out on designer clothes, alcohol, lottery tickets and fancy car accessories with the details, claiming their own cards were damaged.<\/p>\n
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Sometimes they'd keep the luxury items they'd bought with stolen money, but on other occasions they'd ask for refunds to get the cash deposited into their own accounts.<\/p>\n
Not even a nationwide coronavirus lockdown could stop the slick operation during its heyday, as the women set their sights on petrol stations and off-licences instead.<\/p>\n
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Between October 2019 and May 2020, cops identified more than 150 fraudulent transactions across the north west, Yorkshire and Leicestershire.<\/p>\n
But they were rumbled in May when all three sisters and their accomplice Sonia Malhi, 38 (who was jailed last week) were arrested.<\/p>\n
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Cops then raided the sisters' houses in north Manchester and seized an Audi, motorbike leathers, designer watches and cash.<\/p>\n
Last summer, the Burdons all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit almost \u00a380,000 fraud.<\/p>\n
The court heard the sisters hadn't kept all the money for themselves, and had transferred much of it to other people.<\/p>\n
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Lynsey was caged for two years and two months, mum-of-one Emmiline was jailed for two years and four months and Sarah was given 18 months.<\/p>\n
Sentencing mum-of-two Sarah, Judge Everett said: "If I had my way, I'd say don't ever see your sisters again. They have been a bad influence on you."<\/p>\n
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Malhi, who has more than 100 convictions to her name, was finally sentenced last week to 20 months behind bars, after pleading guilty to a second fraud plot in Cumbria.<\/p>\n
Now the gang will have to cough up the cash to pay for the money they defrauded under a Proceeds of Crime Application (POCA).<\/p>\n
A POCA allows the authorities to claim back confiscated cash and assets from criminals to reinvest into policing.<\/p>\n
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