BUSTED!!!: Meet The (WOMAN) Fraudster Who Took Dead Child's Identity And Pretended She Was A Vicar To Steal £250,000 In Disability And Housing Benefits

A fraudster who stole a dead girl's identity then posed as a reverend for twenty years while falsely claiming £250,000 in benefits has been jailed for seven years.

Yvonne Doyle used the birth certificate of four-year-old Carol Ann Naylor, who died in 1951, to obtain a fake passport, driving licence and national insurance number which she then used to claim housing and disability benefits.

In her defence, the 63-year-old said that the charges were part of a 'fatwa' issued against her in her native South Africa and that because of the involvement of 'Jews and Freemasons' she wouldn't get a fair trial - even though fatwas are usually associated with the Islamic faith.

Between 1990 and 2010 Doyle, from Milton Keynes, Bucks, claimed a total of £265,000 in benefits while posing as Reverend Naylor, occasionally using the identity of a second person, Bridgette Meally, who died in 1999.

Doyle claimed she was unable to walk and attended court in a wheelchair, despite witnesses seeing her walking around, gardening and going to the shops without help.

According to police she also didn't need a wheelchair while being arrested back in 2009, when officers found a 'fraudsters tool kit' of fake identities stored inside a suitcase at her daughter's house.

Tim Naylor, prosecuting, said: 'This was a professionally planned fraud. Identity documents were obtained in a number of different names and identities and this was carried out over a significant period of time.

Doyle was also branded as 'clever, manipulative, bold and wholly dishonest.'

Doyle had previously refused to appear before magistrates in January 2011, instead sending a letter claiming she was subject to a fatwa which had led to the 'trumped-up' charges against her.

She wrote: 'The alleged amounts have been manufactured and this was done in order to give the false appearance of high value crime.

Doyle added: 'I do not believe I will get a fair trial due to the involvement of Jews and Freemasons. In 1988 a fatwa, for want of a better word, was declared on me by the chief Rabbi of South Africa.'

Doyle fled South Africa in the 1980s after being accused of dumping a swastika-emblazoned pig’s head on the steps of a Synagogue.

The con-artist, who was then going by the name Yvonne Malone, also evaded a charge of attempted murder in 1988 after she shot and wounded a gardener at her property in Durban.

A South African newspaper reported that in April 1988 worshippers at the Great Synagogue and Jewish Club on Durban’s beachfront found a pig’s head, decorated with a swastika on the forehead and a Star of David on each ear, on the front steps.

An identical pig’s head was also found by members of the congregation at the rear of the property.

Doyle, who owned a steak house, was arrested after the butcher who sold her the heads contacted police.

She tried to escape being charged by using another fake name to ring a local newspaper and claim she had seen a group of Neo-Nazis march up to the steps and dump the heads.

The report revealed that Doyle also faced a charge of attempted murder, and was alleged to have shot and wounded a gardener at the duplex where she lived.

The conwoman, then 38, failed to appear before a South African Court and was believed by the authorities to have fled the country.

Doyle fled to Ireland following her arrest in the UK for her latest offences and had to be extradited back to this country to face trial.

Jailing her at Reading Crown Court today, Judge Angela Morris said: 'You deceived the Department of Work and Pensions, Milton Keynes Council and other financial institutions into providing you with State benefits and other credit facilities that you were not entitled to and never would have received had those institutions known the truth about your true identity or the level of your disability.

'The result was that by fraudulent means you acquired substantial public and private money that you were not entitled to.'

Source: Daily Mail.

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