by TerranceBoyce
Sat Oct 10, 2015 12:31 pm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3266886/Car-salesman-conned-women-met-dating-websites-200-000-jailed-eight-years.html
9 October 2015
Car salesman who conned women he met on dating websites out of almost £200,000 is jailed for eight years
A lonely hearts fraudster who fleeced five women out of 'almost £200,000' to buy flash cars and fund his flamboyant lifestyle has been jailed for eight years.
Love-rat Matthew Samuels, 50, conned an experienced police officer out of £12,000, an elderly widow out of £110,000 and a Russian optician out of £7,500 between April 1 2011 and November 11 last year.
The used car salesman, from Worcester, would hunt vulnerable women on dating sites and boasted of being 'one of the richest men in the UK'
When pushed by the women to repay the money, the manipulative father-of-10 would use 'emotional blackmail', telling women that he had been diagnosed with cancer or that his son had tried to commit suicide.
The judge continued: ''If you had described yourself as a failure in life and in business, who had been bankrupt and who could not hold a true relationship and who was a habitual liar, they would have run a mile.
In a victim impact statement read out in court, Anne Ruddock said: 'This man has destroyed me. My children are all grown up and I don't have anything else.
'I felt better off dying. I can't see myself having another relationship again.'
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