Belle Gibson ‘should be locked up’, her brother Nick Gibson says

The member of Australian crab faker Belle Gibson has said his sister should beryllium successful situation for conning millions of radical – and making hundreds of thousands of dollars successful the process.

Gibson falsely claimed to person healed her inoperable encephalon tumour done fare and alternate treatments, profiting astir half-a-million dollars from a wellness app and cookbook.

In 2017, the Federal Court of Australia recovered the mum-of-one had engaged successful misleading oregon deceptive behaviour and fined her $410,000 for breaching user laws – a good the 32-year-old is yet to pay, A Current Affair revealed successful February.

Speaking to the Daily Mail connected Wednesday, Nick Gibson said helium was horrified astatine the idiosyncratic his younger sister has become.

“I consciousness beauteous upset by what she did to those families. None of them deserved it,” the 35-year-old said.

“They were really going done problems for existent and past you’ve got Belle who’s faking crab and pretending to hole herself and play doc herself and each this different rubbish. The radical she was scamming really had cancer.”

Mr Gibson, who lives successful Brisbane with his family, said helium believes his sister belongs down bars.

“The things she’s done to those families, well, technically it’s fraud,” helium said.

“I deliberation she should beryllium locked up, walk immoderate clip successful situation and person a spot of a deliberation astir it due to the fact that I don’t deliberation she realises what she’s done to them.

“I shouldn’t beryllium saying this due to the fact that I’m her brother, but what she did was nasty. Some situation clip would springiness her a wake-up call.”

That Ms Gibson was lone fined for her actions, Mr Gibson added, is “a slap connected the wrist”.

“If we got a good and we didn’t wage for it successful a definite time, we’d astir apt get locked up. People are angry, I’ve seen decease threats connected Facebook directed astatine her,” helium said.

“I’m ever going to person a spot of emotion determination for my sister. I conscionable anticipation she gets immoderate assistance for herself.”

Ms Gibson’s communicative has been the taxable of a caller two-part documentary, Instagram’s Worst Con Artist, connected Britain’s ITV, has besides inspired an upcoming Netflix drama, Apple Cider Vinegar.

Speaking to The Sun up of the ITV documentary’s premiere past week, Chantelle McAuliffe shared the infinitesimal she realised her erstwhile champion person was lying astir being terminally-ill.

The “red flags truly started to popular up for me”, Ms McAuliffe said, erstwhile she watched Ms Gibson miraculously retrieve from what seemed to beryllium a seizure – wiping the saliva from her rima and insisting she was fine, aft moments earlier rolling astir connected the floor.

“I felt truly sick successful my tummy for what I had conscionable seen,” she said.

Days later, erstwhile Ms McAuliffe recovered retired via an Instagram station that Ms Gibson’s crab had allegedly spread, “I started to question everything, to spell implicit it each successful my mind”.

“She ever looked truthful well, she ne'er looked sick. I started to deliberation astir times wherever she had gone connected tanning beds and different clip erstwhile we went to a nightclub and she was ordering shots and drinks,” Ms McAuliffe recalled.

“I said to Belle, ‘This is not good’. But she said, ‘I’m going to dice soon anyway. Why not person immoderate fun?’

“Those weren’t things she was sharing with her online community. Things conscionable didn’t adhd up for me.”