A BRADFORD mother-of-three is due back at Crown Court later this month after pleading guilty to conning vulnerable people out of money using a fake sob story involving her son.

Jemma Dean, 28, (pictured) has previous convictions for similar door-to-door begging and by admitting the latest offences has breached the terms of a six-year Criminal Behaviour Order imposed last year to prevent the offending.

Dean, of Oxley Gardens, Low Moor, Bradford, who has previously appeared in court as Gemma Dean, appeared at Calderdale Magistrates' Court to answer three charges of fraud by false representation and three breaches of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime, and Policing Act.

The court was told that Dean had visited addresses in Huddersfield Road, Bradford, and Village Street, Norwood Green, Brighouse, to ask residents for money, saying she needed cash to pay for a taxi to visit her son in hospital.

The amounts she received on January 20, 25, and 26, ranged from £10 to £40, which she then kept for herself.

On February 1, West Yorkshire Police issued a warning to residents in the Norwood Green and Lightcliffe areas urging them to be wary of a woman who had been targeting vulnerable people for money.

Dean was remanded in custody, and is due to be sentenced at Bradford Crown Court on February 23.