Swindling Girl Guides sisters forced to sell Leeds home

Two sisters who conned almost £500,000 from the Government are to sell their Leeds home after the courts ordered they begin paying the money back.

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Sarah and Jean Barnbrook, who ran three Girl Guides troops in the Cross Gates area, were jailed last year for a Gift Aid con. For six years they falsely declared that parents had donated almost £2 million and, as a result, they received the £482,294 in Gift Aid - a scheme that allows charities to claim an extra 25p for every £1 donated by a taxpayer. They then