The judge said he interpreted the jury's findings as meaning that Helen was simply dishonest. She was convicted and sent to Holloway Prison for several months. But her remarkable story did not end there. The police raided another of her seances in Nottingham in 1956. They found nothing but Helen died five weeks after the seance.
Spiritualists claim it was because light suddenly shone on a medium in trance can be harmful.
Officially Helen died from natural causes.