Attention seeker who claimed to be Milly pleads guilty to charges

A WOMAN who called the family of missing teenager Amanda Dowler claiming to be the schoolgirl was an attention seeker, a court heard yesterday.

Lianne Newman, 21, pleaded guilty to five charges of making phone calls claiming to be Amanda Dowler to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.

Cheltenham magistrates’ court was told how Newman, of Howles Road, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, had called police, Amanda’s teacher and her father in the month following her disappearance last March.