WOMAN STAGED HER KINDAPPED TO STEAL £25K FROM BOYFRIEND

A CONWOMAN tricked her boyfriend into thinking she had been kidnapped by sending him photos of her gagged in an attempt to blackmail him out of £25,000.

Nadine Smith told Chris Laytham she was taken hostage by kidnappers in Jamaica, who were threatening to kill her unless they received the money.

After receiving the photos, which showed the 38-year-old gagged, bound and wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the words "Gold Digger", Laytham called police - who found her sitting in her apartment in Battersea, London.

Smith borrowed £3,000 from Laytham to fly to Jamaica and visit her ill mum in December last year, supposedly flying from London Gatwick on December 15.

Just one day after she had supposedly landed she sent her duped boyfriend a string of messages to fool him into thinking she had been kidnapped.

Laytham received a string of messages from alleged attackers, referring to Smith by her pet name "Chucky" and saying "we are going to kill her".

Smith called him shortly after sobbing and saying: "They have got me, they want money."

She then sent him two photos, one appearing to show her gagged and the other with her hands apparently tied.

Laytham then received a message from the "kidnappers" saying they would kill her if he didn't send them £25,000.

Speaking about the con, Adams said: "He could understand two other people had been with her and they had been killed because no one had provided the money they had asked for.