Conman Dean Badder became the "puppet master" as he duped a vulnerable pensioner out of thousands of pounds - claiming he needed cash to buy cancer drugs and security payments because he was in trouble with gangs.
Badder made up the lies to get his hands on the man's cash and then splurged it on a static caravan, Nottingham Crown Court heard on Wednesday, June 29. A plumber's mate, Badder's meteoric fall from grace cost his unsuspecting victim nearly £50,000 - and he almost lost his home.
It began when the cruel defendant set up a fake Facebook identity, pretending to a be a young fresh-faced man in his twenties when Badder, of Swindale Close, Gamston, is now aged 52.
