Lonely Hearts victim was driven to the brink of suicide by an 'MI6 spy' conman who swindled her of £850k
A LONELY Hearts victim has revealed she was driven to the brink of suicide after a conman claiming to be a MI6 spy swindled her out of £850,000.
In a highly emotional victim impact statement read to Bristol Crown Court, Miss Woods said: "Mark Acklom acted deliberately, and in the most calculated, premeditated way, to defraud me of all my money and nearly all my personal possessions, and to deprive me of my home and my job, thereby rendering me totally helpless and at his mercy.
"They, too, have been deeply affected by what has happened to me. I have felt condemned to a life that I don't want and I grieve for the life I once had."The divorced mother of two said she has lost her home, is hounded by debt collection agencies and suffers from post-traumatic stress. My life, as I knew it, has indeed been destroyed, and it has only been the love of my two daughters that has prevented me from ending it completelyShe said: "We were in London and he said he'd been called in by his boss, so he drove me to the MI6 building and I watched him walk down into a car park past two armed policemen."
"Initially, when I discovered the truth, I felt bereaved. It was as though the man I fell in love with had died.
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