Conman faces jail over £26k flight ticket deception

A conman who duped customers of his Birmingham based travel agency into buying non-existent flight tickets in a £26,000 scam is facing a long jail sentence.

Victims of the fraud were left panicked and stressed when the promised tickets failed to arrive with planned holidays going “up in smoke.”

A jury at Birmingham Crown Court found Dean Oliver, 46, from Manchester, guilty of 19 charges of fraud and two of using a false instrument.