‘£2,500 spree of cheerleader with money conned from the elderly’

HUGE CASH TRANSFER: Batchelor ONE of the Billericay Town cheerleading team dropped for going after the club’s footballers allegedly blew money conned from elderly victims by her boyfriend in a £2,500 shopping spree.

Rebecca Batchelor, 21, from Rayleigh, Essex, appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court accused of knowing that huge sums of cash transferred into her bank account as part of her ex-lover Anis Ben-Sghaier’s dodgy dealings were the proceeds of crime.

Alongside her in the dock were Ben-Sghaier’s younger brother, Bilal, from Harlow, and Cathereen Welch, from Waltham Abbey, who is also the former lover of Anis Ben-Sghaier. number of people, would fool elderly victims into believing that by making a cash payment up front – which they were told constituted taxes, auctioneer fees and downpayments – they would make a hefty profit.

But they kept the cash for themselves

The court heard that Batchelor had money transferred into her account, one example being the £2,535 she received from a Mr Singh, which she spent on a shopping spree.

The trial continues.