Nigerian poses as Royal Marine, dupes four women of N30m

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Adewale Adewole: posed as a Royal Marine to con four women
A Nigerian immigrant Adewale Adewole, 31, posed as a Royal Marine commando Timmy Francis on dating website, Match.com and conned four besotted women of almost £100,000 (N30,900,000).
He falsely claimed to run an orphanage in Africa and was looking for romance under the motto: “To live and love” and the online nickname “Charismatic Brit”.
But after charming the unsuspecting women, he then claimed he needed money saying he had been mugged while attending to his ‘orphanage’.
The women all sent him cash and paid his hotel bills – only for him to transfer the money into the bank account of his wife who shared his home with their two children in Eccles, Greater Manchester.
Police who caught up with father-of-three Adewole discovered he had used the women’s cash to splash out on iPads, TVs and designer clothes plus electronic and musical items such as a glitterball and a keyboard thought to be worth in total tens of thousands of pounds.
But after he was jailed for four years, officers auctioned off the confiscated items in a bid to repay the victims – only for it to yield just £2,000.
It means the women will get back only hundreds of pounds each – with one victim getting just £199.
It is not known what happened to £4,500 in cash which Adewole kept under his bed and insisted was his.
At a proceeds of crime hearing at Manchester Crown Court, prosecutor Miss Louise Brandon said: ‘The value of the loss was £98,140 and from that there is an available amount of £2,213.71 but the prosecution have four complainants who lost considerable amounts of money.
“The available items were mainly electrical that the police auctioned off so it would mean getting that money from the auction. The compensation orders have …Read More

Source:: PM Newspaper