Maurice Asola Fadola is sent to prison after targeting Western women with the scam and gaining their trust over several months. British women defrauded out of more than £800,000 by a conman in Ghana who romanced them on dating websites have got justice after he was convicted. In an Accra court, Maurice Asola Fadola was sentenced to five years in jail and ordered to re-pay his victims in full. His targets were vulnerable Western women and the scam involved creating a believable online persona and gaining their trust over several months. He then claimed to find himself in financial trouble, or encouraged them to invest in a fake project. Fadola had been accused of extracting the money from 19 women in the UK. Justice has come slowly - some of the women gave evidence in the trial nearly three years ago. Katherine Clark, a 71-year-old grandmother from Southsea, in Hampshire, was the first British witness to travel to Ghana to give evidence in a romantic fraud case. source http://news.sky.com/story/1364337/800k-rom-con-man-who-defrauded-brits-jailed

• published: 31 Oct 2014
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