A DUDLEY conwoman allowed to keep her freedom after she pretended to be a millionairess to buy a £250,000 home has again avoided jail after pocketing more than £18,000 using her mother's name.

Bethany Pole, of Birmingham Road, took out a string of loans from finance companies in the identity fraud, Wolverhampton Crown Court was told, and she intended to use the money for the deposit on a house but was rumbled when her mother Helen, with whom she was living at the time, began receiving letters from the finance firms complaining they were all owed money.

Pole then went to police and told officers she was in a complete mess financially and her borrowing had got “out of control".

The 23-year-old admitted seven charges of fraud involving a total of £18,436 and was given a 16-month jail term, suspended for two years.

She was also placed on Supervision for two years and ordered to carry out 150 hours unpaid community work.

But Judge Alan Parker warned the tearful mother-of-two: “I think eventually you will go to prison” and he described her as a “thoroughly dishonest and feckless individual".

He said Pole had once again been exposed for what she was and he added: “I have the measure of you. If you carry on in this way it will be custody.”

The Judge said it was clear Pole had been trying to buy a property with money she obtained fraudulently just four months after she had been placed on Supervision for three years for an earlier con in which she pretended she had £2million in the bank to buy a £250,000 detached house in Moss Grove, Kingswinford.

She had been allowed to move into the property on a rental basis but it was trashed before her dishonesty was exposed and her actions left the owners in serious financial difficulties.

The Judge said it was an aggravating feature of the case that Pole had committed the fresh frauds just months after being spared jail.

He told her: "You created your spiral of debts and if you had stayed with your mother you would have been able to live within your means. But that was something you did not want to do.”

Krystelle Wass, defending, said Pole had acted foolishly and added: “She wanted to provide a home for her children but she exercised gross misjudgement to obtain finance using her mother’s name.

“She wants to repay all the money but she knows her convictions mean she is going to struggle to find work. At the time she just could not see a way out of her troubles. When confronted by her mother she was immediately honest and they have made amends.”