Agnes Hewitt, 63, spun a web of lies which saw former soldier George Ross and businessman Michael Dooley hand over huge sums of cash.
Hewitt had called demanding a payment for £10,000 as he lay seriously ill in hospital and his family alerted police who discovered she had taken a total of £52,684. Jurors unanimously convicted her of obtaining £192,649 by fraud between January 2012 and December 2018 following a four-day trial. "My husband was crying his eyes out on the phone to her in the hospital and he said to her 'you have bled me dry and taken every penny'."
Dooley, 55, told the court: "Me and my wife were starting to dispute all of the evidence and we got the brush off from her and that is when we knew we were right and that is when the police were called in.He added: "She was mentioning millions of pounds was coming in this settlement.