Opal Taggart made out the lad had two inoperable brain tumours in an online fundraiser.
Opal Taggart conned well-wishers out of £5,837 from her home in Rutherglen making out that a 15-year-old boy had two brain inoperable brain tumours and was receiving palliative care.
"The fact of the matter is, you exaggerated his health problems to deceive other people to give you money and it is completely wrong as well as unacceptable." Sign up to Glasgow Live's newsletter Get all the latest Glasgow news and headlines sent straight to your inbox twice a day by signing up to our free newsletter.The morning newsletter arrives every day before 9am and the evening newsletter, manually curated by the team, is sent between 4pm and 5pm, giving you a round up of the most important stories we've covered that day.
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