Prison for woman who made terror attack claims

A woman who pretended to have a daughter who was seriously injured in the Manchester Arena attack to make an insurance claim has been jailed for two years.

Susan Pain, 51, from Kirkby in Merseyside, was sentenced for two counts of fraud at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday after she pleaded guilty at magistrates’ court to claiming £139,000 through 31 fraudulent insurance claims.

Pain was discovered after her final claim in which she said a daughter called Sophie had sustained multiple serious injuries when suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated a device at the arena in May last year.

The court heard Pain had worked for insurance broker Money Medical Management, which sold policies underwritten by AXA, since she was 16. She made claims under the names of friends and family members between January 2010 and August last year..