The Only Way Is Essex star Lewis Bloor has been acquitted of fraud after being accused of being involved in a £3million diamond scam.
Lewis -–who appeared on TOWIE between 2013 and 2016 – was on trial alongside five other men who were accused of scamming numerous people into buying coloured diamonds after being told lies about their value.
Around 200 people were victims of the scam, most of whom were elderly, which saw them allegedly conned into buying the stones at up to a 600 per cent mark-up.The fraud trial collapsed today in court after a “litany” of Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) failings in the disclosure of evidence.
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