Just four days after being given a chance by a judge a persistent Bury fraudster posed as a charity collector to dupe kind-hearted victims.
Hayley Booth had a suspended prison sentence for burglary and fraud hanging over her but undeterred she went to the homes of three women and a man in Brandlesholme to trick them out of their cash.
Booth, 30, of Whitehead Crescent, who admitted to four fraud offences and burglary, is now starting a 50-month jail term.
She refused to leave her cell at Styal Prison for sentence but Judge Stuart Driver QC, who had taken a chance on her for the previous offences, still jailed her.