Sign up to the MyStockport newsletter to keep up with all the top stories A Stockport couple who fleeced the elderly and vulnerable out of more than £580k have been put behind bars.
Sean Thompson, 48, and Caroline Preston, 39, preyed on their victims in what police have described as a “shocking scam”. The pair would contact vulnerable people across the county pretending to be from a solicitor’s firm. READ MORE: Met Office issues first ever extreme heat warning for large part of UK They claimed they were recovering lost funds due to failed time share investments.
The con allowed them to steal hundreds of thousands of pounds. On July 16, Thompson, of Churchill Crescent, Reddish was sentenced at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court to six
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