A woman who was jailed for fraud after posing as a survivor of the Grenfell Tower fire has lost a challenge against her conviction.

Joyce Msokeri, now 48, watched proceedings via video link from prison as three Court of Appeal judges in London threw her case out.

Lady Justice Sharp announced that Msokeri, who is serving a four-and-a-half year prison term imposed last April, had a fair trial at Southwark Crown Court.

Msokeri claimed she had escaped from the 2017 blaze in west London, where her husband and sister-in-law had perished.

But in fact she was single and living miles away in Sutton.

Msokeri, of Ambleside Gardens, filled a room at a Hilton hotel with donations from well-wishers, concocting an elaborate ploy to claim insurance on her fictitious partner's death.

She claimed about £19,000 in cash donations, goods including electronics, handbags and dresses, and hotel costs.

But prosecutor David Jeremy QC said she would have had access to funds totalling more than £200,000 had she not been caught.

A jury found her guilty of three counts of fraud against the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC), the Hilton and charities plus a further charge of possessing a false document.

Lady Justice Sharp said Msokeri's sole ground of appeal "concerns the trial judge's refusal to grant her an adjournment during the course of the trial, which was asked for on the grounds of the appellant's ill health, and the judge's decision to continue the trial thereafter in her absence".

She said the judge was "right to refuse the adjournment application".

He had gone to "considerable lengths" to secure the fairness of the trial process.

The decision was not unfair to her and the court was satisfied her trial was a fair one.