Richard Wyn Lewis befriended Gerald Corrigan, later murdered in an unconnected crossbow shooting, and the fraud was exposed by the murder inquiry.
A “serial fraudster” has been jailed for six years after conning more than £200,000 from a pensioner who was later murdered in a crossbow shooting.
Sentencing Lewis for five counts of fraud on Friday, Judge Rhys Rowlands said: “That murder tragically remains without a known motive.” The judge said should Lewis return to Anglesey, where he was brought up, he hoped the publicity of the case would offer a “measure of protection” to residents and that he would be viewed as a “serial fraudster”.
He also advised Mr Corrigan to set up an offshore bank account, which he claimed £120,000 was needed for, and to buy a piece of nearby land. Lewis had initially denied 11 counts of fraud and one count of perverting the course of justice, but changed his pleas to admit four counts of fraud on Thursday, the third day of his trial.
Lewis stood trial twice before on the same charges but juries in his two earlier trials were discharged before reaching verdicts, once due to illness and once for legal reasons which prevented the prosecution concluding their case.
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