The self-titled 'Wolves of Wind Street' - jailed for tricking OAP's out of hundreds of thousands
CONMEN who dubbed themselves The Wolves of Wind Street have been jailed for tricking pensioners out of £425,000.Athena Picture Agency
Darren Palmer is one of 'The Wolves of Wind Street' that tricked OAPs out of £425,000 with a boiler scamKyle Lewis and the other three conmen dubbed themselves after Hollywood movie The Wolf of Wall StreetThey swindled 1,200 people and blew the cash in the bars and clubs of Wind Street, Swansea. Prosecutor Lee Reynolds said: "This business targeted elderly consumers in what can be described as an audacious and calculated fraud."
Mr Reynolds said: "There were no Government schemes that would enable people who were not on benefits to have free boilers."BABY SUSSEX ON BOARD!Locals on UK's steepest road tie cars to posts so they don't roll awayBLEEDING IDIOTFamily devastated as burglars nick passports & £40k Audi day before dream holiday
Kyle Lewis, 30, of Port Talbot, Darren Palmer, 42, and David Alford, 33, were sentenced to three years and nine months.Judge Geraint Walters said: “You were living the life and couldn’t stop it.
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