A financial adviser has been jailed for two years after swindling three women, including two elderly aunties, out of £312,000.
Ian Maxwell, from Wrexam, was sent down by Caernarfon Crown Court after admitting to seven fraud offences between 2002 and 2008. A former RAF Pilot who served during the Falklands War, he took £35,000 from Vera Davies, in her 80s, promising income from investments, the Daily Mail reported. Meanwhile, he used his enduring power of attorney to take £172,500 from her sister Dilys Williams, who died in 2010. He took a further £105,000 from Judith Rich, who was then forced to seek financial help from her local authority when payments to her stopped. Judge Niclas Parry told the 61-yea...
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