Arfan Choudry told people he had been in hospital, was sick and needed money for a taxi
A con man who targeted older people with false hard luck stories has been jailed.
, promising them that he would pay them back, Nottinghamshire Police said. Most of the victims were aged 70 and over, in the Basford, Wollaton, the Arboretum, and Forest Fields areas of Nottingham. The 49-year-old, of no fixed address, appeared at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Monday and admitted 11 counts of fraud by false representation.Between October 2022 and January 2023 Choudry took amounts of cash ranging from £19 to £40 on each occasion, the force said.A spokesperson for Nottinghamshire Police, said “no member of the public deserves to be treated in this way and have their hard-earned money stolen from them".
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