Fraudster Targeted Lottery Winner
06/06/2009 11:56:02
When a person wins the lottery it should mean that their worries are over, but the dream doesn’t work that way for some people and Keith and Louise Gough are the perfect example of that. They won £9 million on the UK National Lottery winner but soon separated due to Mr Gough’s drinking and then a fraudster targeted the lottery winner and he lost the lot.
After the separated Mrs Gough gave her husband £1.5 million, he then met the fraudster, James Prince at a bookmakers who befriended him and got him to sign over all his money for so called ‘business ventures’, after checking into the Priory Clinic in Birmingham Mr Prince became a regular visitor to Keith Gough and eventually conned him out of all his winnings.
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The court heard that Mr Gough was an ‘easy and vulnerable victim’ after succumbing to alcoholism and Mr Prince, who was bankrupt was plausible and articulate, driving a black Bentley and giving the impression of being a wealthy man.
He convinced the UK National Lottery winner that he was a successful businessman and needed investment in some exciting business ventures that would generate good returns, but all of this was a lie and he did in all con Mr Gough out of £700,000.
Mr Prince from Cheshire admitted two counts of fraud and one of money laundering at the Chester court and was sentenced to three years and four months in jail.
Justice has been seen to be done but Mr Gough is still penniless having never retrieved any of the cash from his lottery win.
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