Lizzy Bardsley Charged with Child Cruelty

Date published: 03/04/2006

Lizzy Bardsley has been charged with ten counts of children cruelty today, Monday 3 April 2006. The charges follow on from her arrest early last month.

Controversial, chain-smoking mum of eight, Lizzie from Milnrow shocked the nation in Channel 4’s Wife Swap and made a return to the screens in channel Five’s Back to Reality show.

In September 2005 Bardsley was sentenced to 80 hours community service after being found guilty of benefit fraud. She had denied receiving almost £3,800 from media work, including a fee for a topless photo shoot in a national newspaper, while claiming £37,500 a year in benefits. She was also ordered to pay £2,400 costs.

The Hurstead Road resident (Milnrow) is due to appear at Rochdale Magistrates Court on Friday 7 April 2006. The charges relate to offences which took place between 1996 and 2005.