Fraud faked cancer in bid to stop lover walking out
SSPCA centre calls for kitten food donations Council worker jailed for 18 months after shocking deceit
ANIMAL lovers have been asked to donate kitten food to a Scottish SPCA rehoming centre after a feline baby boom.
The charity’s facility in Lanarkshire is caring for 30 kittens and centre manager Gillian Boyle said: “It can be a struggle to keep up with so many hungry mouths to feed.”
The centre remains closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic.
But donations of Iams kitten food can be sent directly via the charity’s Amazon wishlist or dropped off at collection bins placed outside the centre on Bothwell Road in Hamilton.
A COUNCIL worker who pretended he had terminal cancer in a bid to stop his girlfriend leaving him has been jailed.
Scheming Kevin Bevis walked with a cane, swallowed fake medication and even went for bogus chemotherapy sessions to dupe Karen Gregory, 50.
Karen said yesterday: “I just took his word for it. He was with me when I lost my auntie to cancer – how can anyone lie about such a thing?
“It’s hard because people on
BY ADAM ASPINALL the outside think, ‘How can you be so stupid?’ But he went to such lengths.
“He would have the medication, a box of pills, throughout the day.
“I found out they were just vitamins and supplements. I found a big bag of tablets hidden in the shed.
“I was standing next to him as he broke the news to his mum and dad. If he can lie like that to his parents, you have got to believe it.”
The couple met on Facebook in 2016. But mum-of-three Karen started going off Bevis after a while and by May 2018 was about to dump him when the dad of three told her he had stomach cancer.
Bevis, of Sittingbourne, Kent, was finally exposed after Karen went to police last December.
She told officers he was violent and asked them about Bevis’s background under Clare’s Law, named after Clare Wood, 36, who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend.
Bevis was arrested the next day. Police checked his medical records and found no mention of cancer.
At Maidstone Crown Court, he admitted controlling his girlfriend and assaulting her twice.
He was jailed for 18 months and given a five-year restraining order to keep him away from Karen.