Month: March 2014

Olympic ticket fraudster

A millionaire ticket tout who ripped off Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington’s parents has been handed legal aid despite failing to pay back £1.3million he owes to his victims. Terence Shepherd, 52, was jailed for eight years in 2011 for selling seats at the 2008 Beijing games that never existed. Link to article

Fake share fraudsters

Criminal kingpins who robbed British victims of millions of pounds in savings to spend on their playboy lifestyles have been targeted in an unprecedented international crackdown. Officers from City of London Police joined Spanish counterparts from the Policia Nacional in a series of dramatic raids in Barcelona, Madrid, Marbella and London this week, in one […]