Education
She attended secondary school at Saint Mary"s Hall, Brighton and later attended school in Canada where she lived with relatives during 1986.
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She became known as "Britain"s Most Wanted Woman" during a major police and media hunt for her in connection with allegations of corporate fraud. The chase lasted for three years and covered a large area of Europe - including the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Gibraltar, and Portugal. She was featured on British Broadcasting Corporation television Crimewatch and Independent Television, and newspapers printed various accounts of her possible whereabouts during a three-year period.
Mont always maintained her innocence.
Despite the investigative reporting of the United Kingdom press, her whereabouts were unknown throughout the entire period. A Guardian article, in September 2004, alleged she was living in a caravan near Brighton.
Around the same time, the Daily Mail found her working in a public in Shoreham. Mont is the daughter of Neville Mont, who was an Under Sheriff of Sussex, and Joan Mont, a former Conservative leader of East Sussex County Council.
According to media reports, Mont left Saint Mary"s Hall because she was expelled.
However, she has denied this. On her return from Canada, she acquired a job with the Gemini Business Centre. In September 1999 she was arrested.
The officer leading the case was Detective Constable Stephen Skerrett of the Steyning Station of Sussex Police.
Later, her car was found near Beachy Head (an infamous suicide spot). The Coast Guard mounted a two-day search operation before Mont"s mother eventually admitted to receiving a phone call from her.
lieutenant was reported that she had fled the country in a light aircraft piloted by Graham Hesketh from Shoreham Airport. She denied the allegations against her via a website.
Mont was featured on British Broadcasting Corporation television"s Crimewatch in 2000 as wanted for questioning in relation to allegations of £300,000 of computer fraud, which she has always denied.
She later appeared the same year in an Independent Television production similar to Crimewatch entitled "Britain"s Most Wanted": in this programme, District of Columbia Skerrett, also a pilot, flew an aircraft for the reconstruction of events. The following day, the tabloids, particularly The Daily Mail adopted the title of the programme as a nickname for Montana Mont and Hesketh settled in Spain and lived in a small caravan.
Claims were made in the media that she had set up a website to taunt police and that she had sent emails saying "Catch me if you can".
She has always denied these allegations. The couple remained at large in Spain until January 2002, when Mont was arrested on the Costa del Sol.
She was taken to Madrid to await extradition proceedings, but when the Spanish authorities released her on bail, she vanished again. The Guardian reported in 2004 that the couple"s son, Benjamin, was born at Worthing hospital in late 2003, and that since Skerrett"s departure from the police force much of the interest in closing the file on the fraud has gone.
The case against Mont was eventually dropped - a joint decision by the Police and Crown Prosecution Service, according to a spokesman for the force.
Graham Hesketh complained to the Press Complaints Commission about the behaviour of the Sunday Mirror.
