A heartless Edinburgh fraudster who conned a terminally ill pal out of almost £500,000 has been given one month to repay the victim’s family or face 19 months in jail.
Keith Cameron was caged back in 2015 for swindling his friend and neighbour Jonathan Speirs. The 61-year-old was slapped with a proceeds of crime order for £211,000 with the money to be returned to the Speirs family.
Jonathan, a world-famous lighting design architect whose work included the Millennium Dome, died of stomach cancer in 2012 aged 54. But Cameron has still to pay £22,000 despite the order being imposed more than six years ago.
