Sunday 30 November 2008

Gems conman, Patrick Dlodlo, gets four year jail sentence

A MAN whose last known address was in Tilbury faces being jailed for four years after conning people into spending tens of thousands of pounds on fake gemstones made of concrete and glass has been jailed for four years.

Patrick Dlodlo, 58, denied charges of conspiracy to commit fraud between January and May last year.

Dlodlo had been convicted of the same scam 18 months earlier.

He was sentenced in his absence after a one-day trial at Northampton Crown Court.

The court heard Dlodlo was a "confidence trickster" who organised the deception only 18 months after being jailed for exactly the same crime in Leicester in January 2006.

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