Timothy Giles (46) from Swindon targeted the victims on various dating websites - using a photograph of an Australian Airline pilot and, at one stage, also posed as a police officer.
See, too, the undernoted link ... if I've got it correctly:
http://]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/n....ixzz3FToyYADOtogether with my (hopefully) humorous compilation of the conman's resultant court appearance, as follows:
JUDGE: Let's come "down to earth." Tell me,... how did you manage to accomplish this ruse with which you are charged?
TG: No problem, M'lud, ...... all I did was talk
a load of sh1te
JUDGE:... language, Timothy!
TG:... oops ...
... I mean "crap", Your Worship
JUDGE: Hmm ...! Anyway ... by doing so, you've now landed deep in the brown stuff yourself!
VERDICT: His Honour, unconvinced by Timothy's story, promptly "giles" (jails) him.