Girlfriend of fraudster businessman Guy Brudenell joins him behind bars

Alexandra Subris, 33, cheated Brudenell’s creditors out of £75,000 with lies to the official trustee in bankruptcy backed up by fake documents and laundered £37,000 he conned out of other women through her bank account, said Craig Hassall, prosecuting, at Teesside Crown Court.

Alexandra Subris at Ladies Day at York Races Picture: ANTHONY CHAPPEL-ROSS

Together they had planned to run a brothel business with him and another woman.

She lied again in a letter to the judge who jailed him about their financial position and the effect of his crimes on her and continued to help him cover his tracks after he was jailed.

She spent the proceeds of her crimes on high living with trips to Dubai, the Monaco Grand Prix, Ascot and Henley among other high society destinations and brought items at upmarket luxury London stores and the Dorchester Hotel as the couple lived a jetsetting lifestyle funded by crime, Mr Hassall said.

In her diary, she wrote she was angry that Brudenell claimed not to be able to hide things. “Start f****** learning because if you don’t you will f****** drown and you will take me with you,” the entry adds.

Brudenell, 46, formerly of Nawton near Helmsley, North Yorkshire, is now serving nine years in jail for two series of frauds and related offences totalling more than £1 million.

Subris, who lived with him in a £1,800 a month flat in Lammas Court, Scarcroft, Leeds, after he left Nawton, was jailed for two and a half years.

She pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering on the day she was due to stand trial. Mr Hassall said she has been declared bankrupt recently, as was Brudenell some years ago.

Detective Constable Melanie Spanton, now retired from North Yorkshire Police, who spent six years bringing the pair to justice, was commended by the judge for her work.

For Subris, Ian McMeekin said she was a naïve, impressionable girl from a “simple background” who had been “inveigled” by the “charming” Brudenell into crime.

He claimed the diary was a Bridget Jones-type document and a mixture of fantasy and fact and that some of the foreign trips had been paid for by friends.

She had miscarried about the time that he was arrested in 2011, said Mr McMeekin, and the strain of waiting for her trial had harmed her mental health and had affected the health of her parents, for whom she was the main carer.

She first appeared before a court in 2014 and had maintained her innocence throughout. She would have stood trial a year ago, but her solicitors informed the prosecution she would change her plea. The trial was cancelled, but when the case was listed before York Crown Court she sacked her solicitors and maintained her not guilty plea until the trial was relisted in October.

Speaking after the case, Detective Inspector Jon Hodgeon of North Yorkshire Police's Major Fraud and Economic Crime Unit, said: "Subris was a devious fraudster whose greed has now caught up with her. The outcome of this case should send a clear message to those that seek to benefit from the proceeds of crime, that they will be punished and will face the consequences of their actions.

"This investigation was long and complex and my thanks goes to the victims and witnesses who supported the case throughout the lengthy process and without whom today's result would not have been possible."