Compulsive liar and serial fraudster Samantha Cookes has shot to international infamy after her activities were unmasked by the police, newspaper journalists, online sleuths and podcasters.
She is serving a sentence in Limerick Prison having been jailed over a €60,000 social welfare fraud. She passed herself off as terminally ill and claimed the benefits that came along with her (fictitious) condition, Huntington’s Disease.
That fraud, however, is only a tiny fraction of her story.
On today’s podcast crime and security editor Conor Lally explains this puzzling case.
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Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Declan Conlon.
