Benefits cheat lied about pulling people from the rubble after 9/11 terror tragedy
The ex-cruise ship worker - who was caught out lying that she was blind and wheelchair-bound - described battling to free survivors and those who had died
A BENEFITS cheat caught driving when she said she was blind lied about being a heroine of the 9/11 terror tragedy.
Convicted fraudster Ann Grigor made a series of astonishing boasts about how she pulled people from the rubble with her bare hands after the twin towers atrocity.
The ex-cruise ship worker - who was caught out lying that she was blind and wheelchair-bound - described battling to free survivors and those who had died when the World Trade Center buildings collapsed.
She also claimed she comforted bereaved families as they identified their loved ones.
Grigor wrote on Facebook: “It was like something out of a horror movie.”
But a former friend said: “It’s just sick.
“I don’t believe a word she says.”
Last month the Scottish Sun on Sunday told how Grigor, from Gullane, East Lothian, was
The married scammer pocketed £23,000 in disability benefits over a ten-year period.
But the Department of Work and Pensions launched a probe after being tipped off that she had been on a protest march and made social media posts which cast doubt on her ailments.
Footage has now emerged of her striding along at a march to protest about the release of Da Vinci rapist Robert Greens in 2012.
Fraud investigators later watched her driving at 70mph on a dual carriageway and filmed her walking unaided on a shopping trip.
She was sentenced to community payback and a three-year supervision order at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last year after admitting receiving an overpayment of £17,000.
Bleating Grigor later whined: “Your story was nothing but lies.
“I have been sick for years.”
But it can be revealed that Grigor also claims she worked alongside heroic firefighters, police officers and medics after the terrorist attacks in New York in September 2001.
She claims she undertook gruelling rescue work after terrorists flew passenger planes into the Twin Towers.
Grigor wrote on Facebook on the anniversary of 9/11: “I know I will NEVER forget that day.
“I was working in the building across the street and the screams of people trying to run and get out of danger.
“The smoke, the black stuff falling from the sky and the smell was horrible!
“I can still to this day smell it as I think of it all over again!
“I’m sitting here today miles away but my heart and thoughts are in New York City.
“I remember digging in the rubble with bare hands trying to find bodies and free people!
“It was like something out of a horror movie.
“All services were called on to help, the policemen, the firemen, medics, the Salvation Army.
“Churches became chapels of rest for the dead people until a family member came to identify them.
“There was not enough places to lay the bodies out.
“It was heartbreaking as sometimes you were pulling out body parts rather than a complete body.
“It was not a pretty sight.
“We were praying with families as they named their family member.”
Many families who lost loved ones in the New York attacks were only reunited with fragments of them identified through DNA.
A source said: “Everyone knows Ann is in a world of make-believe but this really takes the biscuit.”
Last night when pressed about the bizarre tragedy claims Grigor admitted she made them up.
She told our reporter: “They’re not true.
“I know people that were involved in it.”
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