Libby Vernon Faked Two Pregnancies Using Fake Medical Records in 13-Month Deception

A woman who deceived her partner into believing they were expecting twins has been sentenced to prison after her elaborate deception was exposed during a hospital scan.

Libby Vernon, 23, from Staffordshire, fabricated two pregnancies over a 13-month period after meeting her partner online, convincing him they were expecting twins and later claiming one had died due to a rare medical condition.

The deception included creating a false identity, claiming to be a partner in a nursery business and owning a home with a mortgage, none of which was true, as stated by prosecutor Pamela Fee during proceedings at Workington Magistrates’ Court.

Vernon announced the pregnancy shortly after meeting the man, even staging a gender reveal party by bursting balloons, and later produced a fabricated NHS-branded letter to support her claim of a miscarriage, which the court heard was entirely invented.

She told her partner she had a rare condition involving two uteruses and that the remaining twin was healthy, leading the couple to grieve together for the lost child while preparing for the arrival of the other.

The ruse unravelled when the man insisted on a hospital scan, which revealed the pregnancy bump to be false, exposing the second alleged pregnancy as another fabrication.

Following her guilty plea to 10 charges related to sending false communications, Vernon was sentenced to six months in prison and issued a restraining order.

The victim, from Cumbria, told the court that the experience had left him grieving for children who were never real but felt deeply real to him, describing how his family’s life had been torn apart by the betrayal.

The case highlights the extent of emotional manipulation involved in the deception, which spanned over a year and included multiple fabricated medical documents and staged events to sustain the lie.