Cruise ship captain fraudster handed extra prison time for conning more people including father-in-law
A ‘devious and despicable’ fraudster from Powys already in prison for posing as a cruise ship captain to sell fake luxury holidays has been given more jail time for scamming more people.
Jody Oliver, who grew up in Knighton and was a former special police officer in Hay on Wye, was already serving a six-year prison sentence for posing as a cruise ship captain to sell fake luxury holidays.
He has now been handed a further sentence for conning his father-in-law, an 86-year-old woman and a charity shop manager, appearing at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court on Thursday.
He was dealt with for numerous matters between 2016 and 2019, some of which were committed while on a two year suspended prison sentence order imposed by Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court in August 2019, after he defrauded the Inland Revenue.
The court was told the 45 year-old took £105,000 from his father in law David Hawkes over a two and a half year period between 2016 and 2019.
He claimed he needed the money after his NatWest Bank account was hacked and money was taken from it. He made up fictitious characters including a solicitor, a barrister and expert witnesses and created forged documents supposedly from them.
While carrying on this fraud, he posed as the cruise ship captain to sell phoney luxury holidays to friends and family.
Prosecuting, Mr Jim Davies said 17 other counts of fraud and false representation came from the Worcester area between January 1 and November 30, 2019.
They included the theft of £9,000 from 86-year-old Sylvia Tainton, and nine charges of fraud by making a false representation to Ms Tainton for various amounts of money but totalling about £35,990.
