A woman was jailed for claiming benefits in the names of her dead children. Maria Pridmore, 35, accepted payouts for stillborn daughter Shannon and newborn son Kia, who died at two-weeks-old.
The former nurse and drugs addict with 14 miscarriages before giving birth to a healthy daughter in 2012.
But she secretly pocketed nearly £17,000 of benefits in the names of two of her dead children.
She used her son Kia, who died a fortnight after being born in 2009, and stillborn baby Shannon to claim the cash.
Lincoln Crown Court heard pocketed more than £16,000 worth of housing benefit, council tax benefit and income support. she was also a serial fraudster who also stole more than £30,000 from four women.
Pridmore suffered her first miscarriage aged just 19 - and went on to
experience the trauma of a further 13 miscarriages and a stillbirth.
She was jailed for three years on Friday after admitting seven charges of benefit fraud between 2001 and 2013.
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