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| Adewale Adewole conned 4 women out of £100k and gets 4 and a half years in jail! |
I can never understand these women who dish out thousands of pounds to man they have never met or spoken to face to face on the internet,it's just madness! Are they that desperate?You keep hearing these cases of women getting defrauded on dating sites by men they HAVE NEVER MET and you're there thinking,how is that possible?
The latest fools were conned by Nigerian immigrant,Adewale Adewole, who conned four women out of £100,000 by posing as a dashing army captain and was today
jailed for four-and-a-half years.
Adewale Adewole, 31, wooed his victims by claiming to be a kind-hearted Royal Marine commander who ran an orphanage in Africa. He put up pictures of a real-life Royal Marine claiming to be a glamorous bachelor on his ‘Charismatic Brit’ profile on the dating website Match.com.
Adewole, who arrived in the UK on a student visa, called himself bogus army captain Timmy Francis who was looking for romance with the motto: ‘To Live and love’.
The Nigerian conman even set up a website for the orphanage called Hope House Foundation which he claimed was backed by the World Health Organisation. A string of women fell for his lies but four were conned out of money when he claimed he had been robbed in Nigeria while running his orphanage.
He begged for cash to pay hotel bills and other expenses but in reality, the conman just diverted their cash into his wife’s bank account. In reality he lived a humdrum lifestyle in a flat with his wife and three children in Eccles, Gtr Manchester.
However Adewole then used the women’s money to splash out on iPads, TVs, a digital camera and designer clothes. Adewole also created his own disco at home with a glitterball and a keyboard.The lovestruck women, one of who took out a loan to help him, also thought they were in a relationship with a glamorous philanthropist.
However they became suspicious after never actually meeting the mysterious army captain who always stood them up. Detectives arrested him in October 2012 at his flat and found £4,500 in cash under the bed as well as £2,000-worth of designer clothes and shoes.
Prosecutor Charlotte Brandon told the court that Adewole's four victims were unaware of each other but all had been taken into by his glamorous army captain persona. Miss Brandon said: “All of these pictures were actually of a Royal Marine Commander called Joshua McGowan who knew nothing of what was going on. ‘’Each of the women wanted to find out more about him and were led to believe they were in a relationship with him.“
Miss Brandon added: ‘’ Adewole told the women that on a trip to Africa he was the victim of a crime and needed money. “The crime meant he could not access his own funds. “He said they would get their money back and would be sent letters from the World Health Organisation to show that he would be able to pay them.”
Adewole had set up a fake bank account and one woman was sent a stolen cheque for £35,000.He claimed his flatmate was the brains behind the fraud and he himself was conned. Adewole said: ‘’I got involved because I had a few financial difficulties at the time. “I have no idea about the details of this fraud. I didn’t even know how many victims there were.”
SOURCE DAILY EXPRESS
SOURCE DAILY EXPRESS