2025-03-18
Matriarch of 'industrious' family of insurance fraudsters avoids jail
Stage: Sentence
Outcome: Photo: Collins) The matriarch of a family who were involved in "industrious" multigenerational insurance claim fraud has been handed a suspended prison sentence. Another member of the family, grandmother Winnifred Lawrence (74), was sentenced last year to three and a half years in jail with the final 18 months suspended for making similar claims between 2012 and 2014.