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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1383958/Conwoman-claimed-daughter-T-S-Eliot-help-steal-118k-jailed.html
Conwoman claimed to be BOTH daughters of T.S. Eliot to help steal £118k
(even though the poet didn't have any children)
By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 03:07 EST, 6 May 2011
Conwoman claimed to be BOTH daughters of T.S. Eliot to help steal £118k
(even though the poet didn't have any children)
By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 03:07 EST, 6 May 2011
A con artist who posed as the identical twin daughters of poet T.S. Eliot
was today jailed for seven years after defrauding the Government of nearly
£120,000.
Alison Reynolds pretended to be both Claire and Chess Eliot, who she claimed
were the twin daughters of the poet. In fact, Eliot never had any children.
Reynolds used wigs, stage make-up and a variety of costumes to portray
herself as at least 32 different people, Southampton Crown Court heard.
Using some of the fake identities, she posed as a theatre producer and
director and falsely claimed VAT credits in the name of bogus dramatic
companies.
...
The names Claire and Chess Eliot were just two of a string of disguises
Reynolds used to claim tax credits in the name of the companies.
And she even wrote a play about a woman who uses a false identity to become
a Hollywood producer.
...
In 2002 she was made the subject of a restraining order preventing her from
using other names without informing the court or police.
In 2003, she moved to Burton-upon-Trent in Staffordshire where she pretended
to be identical twins Claire and Chess Eliot.
...
The ruse was rumbled after theatre staff became suspicious that they had
never seen Claire and Chess in the same room. Confronted by staff, she
claimed to be in fact Denise Bryan. Staffordshire police investigated but
did not find enough evidence to charge her.
...
When police raided the Belle Gray clothes shop Reynolds owned in Lymington
in 2008, HMRC officers found passports and driving licences in a number of
names.
Officers also discovered To Do lists with a reminder of 'VAT invoices to fake'.
...
Reynolds was jailed for six years concurrently for the eight counts of fraud
and given a 12 month sentence to run consecutively for perverting justice
and breaching a restraining order.
Regards,
Rick Parker
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