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David Huntley

Heartless South Shields fraudster used widower's bank card after claiming to be a 'distant relative'

A heartless fraudster used a widower's bank card after knocking on his door and claiming to be a "distant relative" of his dead wife.

Katie Shone was with two men when she knocked on the vulnerable man's door and claimed to know his wife, who had passed away on Boxing Day merely weeks earlier. The 35-year-old and the two men were then invited into the widower's home, but he later asked them to leave.

But when the 69-year-old victim later checked his bank statement, he saw that his bank card had been used to buy over £60 worth of items from a local garage. CCTV later identified Shone as the culprit.

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