‘Party girl’ gets jail for faking cancer in elaborate fraud, spending disability money on vacations, booze, drugs
Hanna Dickinson, a Melbourne resident and malignant narcissist who faked having cancer to defraud the Australian government, was slapped with another year in jail, The Age reports.
This particular punishment for Hannah Dickenson was for the cancer fraudster claiming $100,000 in disability sport from the government.
She pulled off this scam while she was also busy duping friends and family to hand over their own hard-earned cash.
Hanna Dickinson’s life as a cancer fraudster had its inception while she was wrapped up in extreme drug and alcohol use.
Dickinson was leading a party lifestyle of drugs and alcohol in 2013 when she told her family she was gravely ill with leiomyosarcoma, a rare form of cancer, and she needed money to go overseas for treatment
But Hanna Dickinson never had cancer. She was a calculating fraudster.
Concerned for her welfare as she supposedly suffered from leiomyosarcoma, her friends and family pooled their resources and forked over $41,770 all told.
What did Hanna Dickinson do with her cancer fraud money? She jetted off to Thailand and Hong Kong on vacation and drank, sniffed or ingested much of the cash by consuming alcohol, cocaine and MDMA.
The Sun reports that Dickinson told her own mother that she had three months to live.
The court heard that Hanna had forged medical documents in order to claim over £55,069 in disability pension across four years.
In defrauding the Australian social security payments system, called Centrelink, Hanna Dickinson claimed she suffered from a bowel tumor and a cancer known as soft tissue sarcoma of the shoulder.
As with her mother, she threw in the bit about having three months to live to milk the government’s welfare state for all it was worth.
Hanna Dickinson went so far in her fraud as to fake a letter from a colorectal surgeon who levied that surgery for her cancer amounted to her best chance at escaping certain death.
The Daily Mail reports that prosecutors insisted that Dickinson had borderline and narcissistic personality disorders, which the judge accepted as factors that fueled her ruthless scheming.
Dickinson was bullied as a child and used her parents’ money to buy her classmates lunch in an effort to ingratiate herself with them
By the time she hit adulthood, she found that compulsive lying gave her such a rush that she relied on it like a drug.
The court has ordered Hanna Dickinson to repay a current balance of $92,178.72 of the funds she obtained fraudulently through her tales of having cancer.
Her additional yearlong sentence in jail is being tacked onto an existing sentence she’s already serving for breaching an earlier court order.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Hanna Dickinson was “crying tears of self pity” as she was handed the new sentence for her cancer fraud.
The 37-year-old is now a convicted welfare cheat.
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