A woman who lived the high life thanks to her armed robber boyfriend has been jailed – after repeatedly snubbing the authorities.
Danielle Bardsley, 30, wept as she was caged after ignoring a court order demanding she pay back some of the money stolen by her boyfriend Peter Anderson.
Last year the M.E.N. revealed how Bardsley, of Barrow Street, Salford, enjoyed a footballer's ‘WAG’ lifestyle thanks to Anderson’s life of crime.
A court ruled she had benefited to the tune of £112,000 but a VW Golf car and a few pounds in a bank account were the only assets of hers police could find.
She was handed a suspended prison sentence and given four months to hand over £5,036 of ‘realisable assets’, mainly the VW Golf.
In December, she flouted her suspended prison sentence by failing to keep appointments with her probation worker as required.
But judge Anthony Gee gave her another chance after hearing she had become ‘depressed’ because her boyfriend was locked away.
She was allowed to walk free although she was handed a curfew to prevent her partying over the Christmas period.
But she still couldn’t stay out of trouble.
Bardsley was arrested on Monday after snubbing six police letters and a court summons.
Yesterday Bardsley sobbed as magistrates in Bolton invoked the jail term handed down last year in the event she failed to pay up.
The court heard she had paid £2,000 on November 27 after selling the Golf but she later ignored two letters and a court summons about the outstanding amount.
She claimed she had again been ‘depressed’ and that the value of the Golf had been slashed due to damage.
Giving her 72 days behind bars, chairman of the bench Dr Derek Tate told her: “We believe there’s no evidence that you have made a concerted effort to discharge this order.”
He added there was ‘no merit’ in her bid to adjourn the hearing to, as her solicitor Vic Wozny said, ‘beg or borrow’ the money from her family.
Bardsley’s boyfriend Anderson was jailed for six years in 2006 for a terrifying armed bank raid in Preston.
At the previous hearing, a court was told how she had enjoyed a luxury lifestyle while claiming benefits.
She wore Prada designer clothes and jewellery, went to a private gym and lived behind wrought iron gates in a comfortable semi-detached house equipped with the latest mod cons, including a Bang & Olufsen flat-screen TV.
Bardsley boasted a permanent tan thanks to holidays in Mexico, Florida and Tenerife and had access to a fleet of cars including a Porsche Cayenne, Range Rover Sport and Audi A4.
Despite all that, for nearly 10 years the mum-of-two claimed she was unemployed and sponged £30,000 from the state in income support as a ‘single mother’.
She also claimed free school meals for her two children.
She admitted money laundering but escaped jail at the first hearing because of concerns over the care of the two children she has with Anderson.
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Good!!...she should have been jailed for a lot longer considering the money she cheated from the taxpayer, while paying virtually nothing herself into the system.
Hurray! Pity it wasn't 72 months.
Rather than the courts pussy footing around with this "depressed" woman she should have been locked up months ago but, then, thats the British criminal justice system for you.
Don't call her a gangster's moll. When I think of that, I think of the beautiful Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde, not this crone who looks at least 10 years older than she claims to be. Just an orange chav.
"Wept as she was caged". Its all downhill from now on dear. The after-taste of the high life you once had must be like bitter lemon on the tongue. Will you be holidaying in Mexico this year, or a weekend in Blackpool?
Another of life's takers. Absolute scum. Well done the authorities for eventually doing the right thing.
Wept - Sobbed - lol
If the powers that be would stop giving people (So many) second chances, it wouldn't be such a suprise when they eventually get sent down.
And of course when she is released - she still has to find the money as it won't be discharged.
It does however highlight that you cant flog your car to a mate cheap and use it as an excuse not to have the money lol
I think most people read this story with a smile on their face.
Scum.
No pride.
Good. (big smile on face)
You can run but cant hide.
It could be worse imagine living next to her....
Not before time.
The joke of it is is that it is Magistrates that have sent her down, not, as should have been, a Circuit Judge.
Grinning from ear to ear.
Great new. Her kids are her responsibility, not the State's. Why that should ever be a factor in not jailing her in the first place is beyong me - if you commit crime you should suffer the consequences regardless of the impact on your family life.
Hopefully she'll learn from this experience and stop her life of crime. I doubt it though.
i bet she wasnt crying when spending the dodgy money etc.... hopefully this lowlife will see the error of her ways and change but i wont hold my breath
Mothers, I use that word lightly here, are guarded from prison by their status, when the opposite should be true, Reared by criminals, kids would be vulnerable to following the same lifestyle, (child abuse to me,), so should be separated from the parent/s, for their own and societies good. QUESTION; Are the financial profits of crime deemed income by the benefits agency ?, anyone know?.
I am guessing the answer is "no", as prosecution for fraudulent claiming is never mentioned in cases like this.
go on lass if you can get away with ,good luck. steeling it from the banks is probably a safer way of keeping the money here in england than letting the banks invest the money in foriegn investments.at least it will still circulate in the british economy. why are people moaning , most of parliment are at it ps they dont pay back
There are a lot of criminals getting very rich in todays Britain and you dont need the risky occupation of armed robbery to do it and the more money they have the easier to pay people off with.
Finally. What a total tramp. Actually no, that's a bit harsh on actual tramps.
what a scum bag... lock her up for ever, or maybe a quick injection to remove her from the gene pool all together
"Bardsley boasted a permanent tan thanks to holidays in Mexico, Florida and Tenerife"
So the sun turns you orange does it?
I wonder if Risley has a tanning wing ?
Something tells me if she´d have had the money, she´d have repaid it rather than go to prison. Now the tax payer will have to cover that bill, plus the one´s to make sure her innocent children don´t suffer - and what of her home? She´ll likely lose that too, more taxpayers money to rehouse her. And then the benefits bill. Because now she´s been in jail she´ll never get employment. What a complete waste of time and money. There must be better alternatives to prison for women, it´s not like she´s a violent thug, and she´ll just be sharing a cell with some other "criminal" who didn´t pay their TV license.
nigey, halifax, I have a problem with terrorising staff at gun point, staff that are not enjoying obscene bonus`s or high pay, who, on the front line, are the ones looking down the barrels of guns at close range, hoping the trigger finger is not a nervy one. Staff that pay taxes that this thing greedily continued to sponge off whilst living high on lucre. Should one of these workers , or customers, be killed, then I hope you would not be so quick in considering the robbers as Robin Hoods.
It should have been a minimum of five years down the pokey. In fact let her nove in with her scum bag boyfriend Anderson.