Werrington woman jailed for faking twins pregnancy to partner

A woman who duped a man into believing they were having twins, until her fake baby bump was exposed in a hospital scan, has been jailed and given a restraining order.

Libby Vernon, 23, from Staffordshire, spun a web of lies over 13 months after she met the man online, a court heard.

She constructed a fake life about her job, home and relationship when she met him and later announced she was pregnant with him when she was not, even bursting balloons at a gender reveal party.

After the case went to court, the man, from Cumbria, said his family’s lives have been torn apart and he had been left grieving babies that were never real but felt real to him.