Joanne and Stephanie Palmer, from Stockport, targeted two firms of hauliers by bombarding unsuspecting staff members with phone calls.
Two scheming sisters have been jailed for making chilling threats to 'finish' a family-run haulage business and hurt a director's loved ones during an audacious £1.2m fraud.
"The calls threatened that bailiffs would be at her home within the hour if she did not make payments,” said the prosecutor. “They were abusive. They threatened to finish her business. There were some threats against family members. Due to the threats being made she was scared and convinced that the threats would be carried out, so began to make payments.”
She was initially reluctant to raise the alarm. But the sisters were caught red-handed after woman’s daughter was alerted and turned detective. She switched calls to her own phone, pretended to be her mother and made recordings which were transferred to police. Concerns had previously been raised by bank staff concerned by 'enormous' withdrawals which were deemed suspicious.
The Palmer sisters had also trained their sights on a second business, the Bridlington Shellfish Company on the east coast. Again money was demanded from the now former company secretary in respect of non-existent advertising with almost £70,000 handed over. Defence barrister Jane Dagnall, for mother and grandmother Joanne Palmer, said her offending was 'part of a wider-arching crime', adding: "There are clearly many others involved, more sophisticated."
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