An east Belfast woman has been jailed after promising to donate a kidney over Facebook. Nicola Hutton reached out to Billy and Joanne Cullen over social media after Billy’s diagnosis of a serious disease. A stranger to the couple, Hutton continued to keep in contact with them to assure that she was a match and the transplant process was underway – but in reality, she had never intended to hand over the organ. 

Hutton has now been sentenced to five months in prison. 

Olivia Peden is joined by Belfast Telegraph reporter Kurtis Reid. 

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