CHILD MINDER BRENDA FRANCIS SLASHED HER BREASTS AN

CHILD MINDER BRENDA FRANCIS SLASHED HER BREASTS AND BODY IN

AN ATTEMPT TO CON CASH FROM THE CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION BOARD.

FRANCIS ALSO MUTILATED HER FACE – CLAIMING TO POLICE SHE HAD

BEEN THE VICTIM OF A SERIES OF VICIOUS KNIFE ATTACKS.

BUT HER PAINFUL DECEPTION PROVED POINTLESS WHEN SHE WAS

CONVICTED OF THREE CHARGES OF ATTEMPTING TO CON MONEY FROM THE CICB.

DURING SEVEN HOURS OF DELIBERATION, AN INNER LONDON CROWN
COURT JURY ALSO FOUND 34-YEAR OLD FRANCIS GUILTY OF ONE CHARGE OF

PERJURY AND TWO FURTHER CHARGES OF ATTEMPTING TO PERVERT THE COURSE

OF PUBLIC JUSTICE.

THE CON WAS EXPOSED WHEN FRANCIS GAVE FALSE EVIDENCE IN COURT

AGAINST A MAN SHE CLAIMED HAD ATTACKED HER ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS.

BUT FRANCIS, OF GROSVENOR TERRACE, CAMBERWELL WAS RUMBLED WHEN

POLICE INVESTIGATING HER ALLEGATIONS OF ATTACKS, FOUND THEY ALL HAD A

SIMILAR PATTERN, WITH WOUNDS IN SIMILAR PLACES AND A LACK OF

WITNESSES.

IN ALL SHE ATTEMPTED TO FALSELY OBTAIN OVER #3,000 FROM THE CICB

FOR THREE KNIFE-ATTACKS.

FRANCIS HAD ALREADY RECIEVED MORE THAN #3.

500 FOR OTHER ATTACKS

WHICH THE JURY FOUND TO BE LEGITIMATE.

FRANCIS, A CRECHE SUPERVISOR FOR THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
FOR THE CARE AND REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS, WAS REMANDED IN

CUSTODY FOR MEDICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC REPORTS.

ENDS