A romance scammer wove an elaborate web to defraud a woman out of £150,000 in the name of love. Penniless asylum seeker Frank Adozi is actually gay - but he targeted this one woman and many more - to get his hands on their cash.
Adozi, 32, of Kneeton Vale, Sherwood, had a fake profile on dating website "Our Time" of a middle-aged oil rig worker in search of love. But it was all lies. Using the false name Mark McCarthy, he was also attracting women to give him their cash on Tinder and other online sites and amassed a further £40,000 from them.
It happened 14 months after he was released from his last sentence of four-and-half years for perverting the course of justice and two frauds, where he set up a false ID and exploited others. His main victim, who wishes to remain anonoymous, met him on "Our Time" after her relationship ended.
