A heroin addict who conned Huddersfield pensioners out of £300,000 has been jailed for seven years.
Leeds Crown Court heard that 40 year old Omar Arshad would spin sob stories to his victims to fund his drugs habit, telling one pensioner his child had died of TB and he couldn’t afford the funeral.
Arshad was caught when one victim whom he had told he needed bus money to visit his sick daughter in hospital recognised his photo in the local press when a businessman had bought him a suit out of pity for another one of his sob stories.
Arshad of Queen Elizabeth Gardens was jailed for seven years after he admitted three counts of fraud.