{"id":169965,"date":"2025-11-08T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T15:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/169965\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T15:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T15:37:15","slug":"the-inside-story-on-how-fake-kidney-donor-duped-ni-family-and-the-stranger-who-came-to-the-rescue-he-saved-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/169965\/","title":{"rendered":"The inside story on how fake kidney donor duped NI family and the stranger who came to the rescue: \u2018He saved my life\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Cullen family have spoken about their heartbreak at being duped by Nicola Hutton, who falsely claimed she had attending hospital appointments to donate Billy Cullen a life-saving kidney transplant, and exclusively reveal the identity of the man who saved his life\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grace, Billy and Joanne Cullen at their home.  Inset: Nicola Hutton  (Luke Jervis\/Belfast Telegraph)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4c38f7db-9086-41d5-a99f-75dac7f23682.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Grace, Billy and Joanne Cullen at their home.  Inset: Nicola Hutton  (Luke Jervis\/Belfast Telegraph)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Joanne Cullen decided to test a hunch, she invented a doctor\u2019s name on the spot. She texted Nicola Hutton \u2013 a Sydenham woman who had spent months claiming she was donating a kidney to Joanne\u2019s gravely ill husband Billy \u2013 asking if she\u2019d spoken to Dr Yim and Nurse Jenny, two names she had completely made up to test her. <\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Within minutes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/courts\/she-stole-months-off-my-husbands-life-ni-woman-who-lied-about-pledge-to-donate-kidney-is-jailed-as-victims-family-hail-sentence\/a1980555958.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hutton<\/a> (also known as Nicola Carlisle) replied: \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0 The Cullen family have spoken about their heartbreak at being duped by Nicola Hutton, who falsely claimed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[72211,9,10,13,14,6,26214,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-169965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-antrim-news","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-kurtis-reid","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-world","23":"tag-world-news","24":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115514824751269886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}