UK schoolboy talks about how benefit-fraud mother convinced him he had cancer

A schoolboy from Gloucestershire whose own mother persuaded him he had cancer so she could fraudulently claim benefits has spoken about the "horrible" ordeal.

An English schoolboy whose own mother persuaded him he had cancer so she could fraudulently claim benefits has spoken about the "horrible" ordeal.

The youngster, who had his head and eyebrows shaved as part of the £85,000 (€105,924) scam, said he believed he was going to die.