A conman who tried to sell London’s Ritz Hotel for £250m has been jailed for five years.
The out-of-work lorry driver, from North Yorkshire, managed to dupe his victims into handing over £1m for the landmark hotel, according to BBC reports.
Jurors at Southwark Crown Court heard that he pretended to be a close friend of the hotel’s owners, the reclusive billionaire Barclay brothers.
Sentencing him, Judge Stephen Robbins said: “You were found guilty by a jury of this elaborate and outrageous scam, purporting to sell the Ritz Hotel, thereby obtaining £1m from your victim.”
