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The dad of a lying student who was jailed for wrecking her college lecturer's life says his daughter "deserves to be punished".

Elisa Bianco, 22, duped caring Sally Retallack, 49, into believing she had kidney cancer, moved into her home, broke up the marriage and even posed as a man online to become her internet love interest .

She was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison yesterday after her four-year scam was exposed.

Bianco's father Leo, 52, has since spoken of his disgust at his daughter's actions and claims she was deceitful even as a child.

He told The Sun: "What she has done is horrible and she deserves to be punished.

"I've got no idea why she started telling all the lies. She certainly wasn't an unloved child.

"But if she knew someone had an illness, she would pick up on that and all of a sudden she would have it as well."

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The IT worker from Southampton added that when his daughter lied they usually got bigger and the bigger they got.

Her terrifying stalking campaign, which prompted Sally to give up her job and become her full time carer, has since forced the former lecturer to move to France to try and rebuild her life.

After being duped by forged hospital letters, she spent thousands on Bianco’s bucket list, drove her to medical appointments and even let her share her bed believing the girl was in constant pain.

Sally’s husband left after the girl created ‘enormous pressure’ on their relationship, but Bianco then pretended to be a widower on an internet dating site to romance her victim.

Sally, who even organised a ‘final birthday party ’ for the girl, said: “I truly believed she had no one else - now I have no career, no job, no husband and little self confidence’.

Jailing Bianco at Truro Crown Court , Judge Christopher Harvey Clark QC said: “It is a very strange and disturbing case.

“You were like an uninvited cuckoo fledgling in the nest of a willow warbler - an unexpected offspring demading to receive constant attention.”

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Married mum-of-four Sally first met Bianco aged 16 at St Austell College in Cornwall in 2009 on a health and social care course.

She conned Sally into helping her overcome a series of faked panic attacks .

Her worried tutor gave her £50 when she graduated and her home address in case she ever needed help again.

But her nightmare began when the girl turned up four days later at her doorstep with a black eye, falsely claiming she had ‘alcoholic’ mum had beaten her.

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Sally let her stay at the family home for two nights, but the stay was extended to months.

Sally found her a place at Plymouth University, but Bianco quit after three weeks claiming she had health problems and moved back in.

Months later Bianco pretended to have a kidney removed and when Sally eventually suggested she get a job in March 2013, she claimed to have a cancerous tumour on the other kidney and later claimed she had three months to live.

The lecturer took compassionate leave from her job and spent £2,000 helping Bianco complete a bucket list of 20 wishes.

She also drove Bianco to hospital in her pyjamas for treatment each day and picked her up eight hours later.

The strain of caring for Bianco led to husband Ralph leaving Sally after finding “solace” with another woman.

Evil Bianco then created a make-believe character - a widowed hospital consultant “called John” - and used him to start an internet romance with Sally.

The cruel trickster used a voice-altering phone so she could pose as “John” in phone calls to Sally - but she killed him off when the lecturer wanted them to meet up.

Bianco wrote a death-bed love note which “John” sent to Sally with flowers which arrived the day after he “passed away”.

Prosecutor Philip Lee told the court : “She showed her text messages supposedly from a nurse to the effect: ‘John’s heart is going to fail...don’t think he’s going to make it...’ then a further message: ‘gone’.”

With Bianco seemingly close to death, Sally invited 25 friends to her 21st birthday party in the garden of the family home in Cornwall in August.

Bianco sat on a sofa dressed as Elsa the Snow Queen from blockbuster Disney movie Frozen .

But four days later her lies were exposed after she left her mobile phone at Sally’s home in Portscatho, Cornwall, and Ralph contacted the girl’s father who ‘told him something’ of the truth.

The deceit was uncovered on August 12, 2013 when Bianco said her father was planning to take her home.

Sally went to the Royal Cornwall Hospital, who had no knowledge of Bianco.

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After her arrest, she confessed to forging NHS letters and lying about her condition to dupe her victim.

Devastated Sally told the Mirror: “Every single thing she told me for four years - two years at college and two years living at my home - was a pack of lies.

“I stupidly gave her £50 and my address when she finished college and said: ‘If anything really serious happens, come to me’.

“Four days later she arrived saying her mum was an alcoholic and had beaten her - it was completely untrue.

“I took her to Plymouth University on the first day of term - and felt glad she had reached that point and was out of my family to be honest.

“But the police told me she spent all of her grant partying and didn’t go to lectures.

“Instead, she arrived back at my door and upped the lies about health issues until it got to the point where she needed 24-hour care.

“I was showering Elisa and her hair was falling out in clumps as you’d expect with someone having chemotherapy.

“I only found out later she was cutting her hair at the roots so it would fall out as I combed it.

“She told me she was spending eight hours a day at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro - I would deliver her to the door in front of the renal unit in her pyjamas.

“She had her own locker at the hospital and staff gave her free food at three restaurants.

“Every day for five months, she would get changed into jeans and go on a jolly for the day.

“I was unaware she was getting money from her family to buy medical supplies so she could be covered in dressings and bandages when I arrived to bring her home at the end of the day.

“I would push her through the hospital in a wheelchair in her pyjamas and the cafe staff would say what a lovely girl she was - she duped everybody.

“She was incredibly clever and had no normal sense of conscience - it’s very scary.

“Me and my husband became estranged because of the pressure.

"He found solace in another woman and left and then five months later he wanted to come back.

"But the second we talked, Elisa would have a medical emergency. She managed to get between me and my four children and isolate me.

"She forged NHS medical records using the correct logos and signatures.

“She used two lap-tops and five mobile phones to pretend to be different people including a renal consultant.”

The court heard Elisa claimed to be so ill she began climbing into the lecturer’s bed for round-the-clock care.

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The pair did not have a sexual relationship.

Sally told how Bianco created ‘John’, in an attempt to create an online romance.

Sally said: “She did try to push me towards a relationship of that nature with John - but he didn’t exist.

“It got to the point where she wanted me to send John intimate photos but I refused.

“She had a voice-changing device on her phone and used it to pretend to be John.

“John told me the reason his voice was quite high pitched was because he’d had throat cancer.

"But when I took a fancy to him and wanted to meet - she killed him off.

“We only found out everything was a charade because she made one fatal mistake.

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“One day Elisa went to hospital and left a mobile phone at home. My husband Ralph phoned her dad who had no idea she was ill.

“Ralph said: ‘I’m sorry to tell you she is dying’ and her dad jumped in his car and drove to the hospital.

“Elisa phoned me screaming down the phone that her dad had abused her and we must not let him near her.

“I rushed to the hospital caridology unit where she said she was having treatment - but when I went into the ward they knew nothing about her.

“I then went to the renal unit and they knew nothing - even though she was supposedly dying.

“She put on an amazing, terrifying act.

“Elisa had lost two stone in weight - presumably because of the pressure of juggling so many balls in the air.

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“Nobody doubted the tumour on her kidney was killing her.

“She even used a little plastic bottle hidden under her clothes to make a noise like cracked ribs.

“She would use the trick in front of you and writhe in agony. Elisa even made a bloody bucket list.

“She was very interested in penguins. We went to London Zoo where we had a private viewing of the penguins - she had fluffy penguins everywhere.

“Then we went to visit her sister who was six months pregnant - and devastated when Elisa told her she was dying.

“I organised a 21st birthday party for her where all her friends were in tears because they thought it was her last.

“She wore some repulsive fairy wings and a tiara and said she was going to heaven.

“About 25 people turned up for the party and because Bianca said she couldn’t walk she sat on a sofa in the garden because she wanted to be a princess like Elsa from Frozen.

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“It’s just sick, sick, sick.

“I got compassionate leave from work to look after her but I didn’t go back afterwards because I was not capable of it.

"When I looked at that girl in the dock I still couldn’t comprehend it was all a pack of lies.

“But all the tests on her mental condition came back negative.

“I’m now just a completely different person. I’m divorced from my husband and this has totally finished my life as I know it.

“I was a well paid lecturer for ten years but now I’ve lost my career.

“I spent thousands on Bianca and treated her like a daughter. My children are far more angry and hurt than I am.”

In a victim impact statement given to court, she added: “To discover this entire and person and relationship to be a fraud, just a young girl playing, was devastating and embarassing to a level I find so hard to put into words.”

Sally has sold her home and moved to the South of France.

She runs a bed and breakfast near Carcassonne where she lives with her 83-year-old mum and young daughter.

Bianco was jailed for two years and eight months on Friday (DEC 18) after she admitted stalking Sally and causing serious distress.

Passing sentence, judge Christopher Harvey Clark QC told her: “I can truthfully say it is the most extraordinary case I have had to deal with in a long time.

“Most chilling was the callous and cruel deception to create a fictitious hospital consultant.

“You heartlessly manipulated Mrs Retallack’s deepest emotions. No sentence will compensate her.”