A woman who posed to have terminal cancer and stipulated £250,000 from her husband, his family, and other men has been imprisoned for four years.

Jasmin Mistry (36) from Loughborough was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court On Friday, December 14 after pleading guilty to a count of fraud by false representation on October 24.

Mistry first told her husband Vijay Katechia (40) in 2013 that she had brain cancer, using a different SIM card, pretending to be her own doctor and confirming her claims. She allegedly told her husband that she needed the money to go to the US for treatment, and spent it on Chanel and Prada handbags.

The total amount she had collected from 20 members of Mistry’s extended family and eight others was calculated by the Met Police as £253,122.

Her lies came to light when Mistry’s husband’s friend discovered a photograph of one of her purported brain scans. The same image had appeared on Google as well, and the friend had explained to him that the tumour was so severe that it would prove fatal to anybody living with it. The eventual confrontation of his wife led to her spilling the beans, and Mr. Katechia filed for a divorce soon after.

“I am glad for the victims of this deceit that they have seen justice. Jasmine Mistry went to extreme lengths to manipulate those closest to her emotionally and financially to defraud her now-former husband and his family out of a large sum of money,” said detective constable Jon Bounds.