Sport 01-09-2004 who: Former Arlesey Town FC player Simon Carmichael what: Conned fans and team-mates that his daughter was cancer victim, court is told where: Crown Court, LUTON when: Yesterday snippet: The 25 year-old "was sentenced to 120 hours` community service, a six-month curfew and a costs order of £500," says The Scotsman, after he claimed his four-year-old daughter, Taomi, had died of throat cancer, when she had in fact gone to Milton Keynes to live with her mother. In other news about kids and their unscrupulous families, The Sun reports on the girls aged 11 and 12 who were abandoned at Stansted airport en route to Corfu when their family discovered the children`s passports were invalid. [... more]

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