Woman conned out of thousands just hours after terminal cancer diagnosis

"Heartless" criminals claiming to be from her telephone provider called the 70-year-old and told her that a direct debit payment had failed.

Fraudsters conned a woman out of thousands of pounds hours after she was given a cancer diagnosis.

Linda Gibbs, of Coniston Way, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, was told her illness was terminal on July 14.