An elderly man duped into sending the contents of his bank account to a con artist has been reunited with his cash.
Earlier this year, Northumbria Police were contacted by the family of a 68-year-old man from North Shields, who had been targeted by a fraudster claiming to work for his bank.
The victim, who suffers from early-onset dementia, was told there had been irregular activity on his account and that he needed to withdraw his money and send it to an address in West Midlands for safekeeping until it could be deposited into a new, safe account.
