A MOTORIST who masqueraded as his dead father so he and his wife could fraudulently use his disabled blue badge has been handed a community penalty. Kenneth Hinton sent a string of letters and emails claiming his late father was still alive and even resorted to forging the dead man’s […]
THE case of a 95-year-old East Sussex woman conned out of hundreds of pounds is being used to highlight the dangers of scams for a national awareness-raising campaign. Doris, who lives alone in Eastbourne, was left more than £500 out of pocket after being tricked by telephone cold callers into […]
A FORMER cocaine addict with a £400-a-day habit who conned pensioners in a roofing scam has been ordered to pay back a large chunk of his ill-gotten gains. William Jones was jailed for 16 months in December following a prosecution by East Sussex County Council after he tricked elderly residents […]
