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R v Noble sentencing remarks

Judgment Cited authorities 3 Cited in Precedent Map Related
Vincent
JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date24 June 2022
Subject MatterCriminal
CourtCrown Court
In the Crown Court at St Albans
The Crown
v.
Frances Noble
Laura Borrell
Philip Borrell
Sentencing Remarks of HH Judge Richard Foster on 24th June 2022
1. Frances Noble falls to be sentenced today for a benefit fraud on an
enormous scale. It is possibly the largest fraud of its type to come
before the English courts. She has failed to appear at court for
sentence today. She remains in Germany to where she travelled with
Mr and Mrs Borrell (her daughter and son in law) in 2019. She has
had ample opportunity to make arrangements to return for this
hearing. Indeed Hertfordshire County Council offered to send two
Social Workers to assist with her travelling arrangements, and this
court offered to consider varying Mr Borrell’s bail conditions to
enable him to return to Germany to assist. At previous hearings I
have made it clear that if she failed to attend today I would proceed
to sentence in her absence, and a transcript of my remarks in this
regard have been sent to her.
2 It is against this background that I proceed to sentence her in her
absence, although she is represented today, as she has been
throughout, by Mr Benjamin Newton of counsel. Due process will
have to take its course to extradite her back to this country to serve
her sentence. Upon her return to the jurisdiction the court will deal
with breach of bail, and if guilty of a Bail Act offence she will receive

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