Boiler room 'investment brokers' jailed for £5m fraud

The City of London Police said the gang targeted vulnerable people over the phone, in their local pubs and at an England cricket match. Hugh Rodley, aged 65, Phillip Dennett, 41, Julian Silver, 43, Sonny Willis, 28, and Adam Corbett, 31, were jailed at Southwark Crown Court for a total of 20 years, having been convicted of running an operation that conned at least 600 investors out of about £5m. City of London Police uncovered a network of ‘investment brokers' pressurising people into buying worthless shares in a clone company of World Aqua Tech International, along with European Land...