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ROMANCE SCAM RAPIST IS CAGED
Daily Record
|July 11, 2024
Fiend who conned women out of £214k is jailed for 12 years
A "MANIPULATIVE and violent" rapist who defrauded women out of £214,000 through romance scams has been jailed for 12 years.
Christopher Harkins, 37, targeted single women on dating sites, portraying himself as a successful businessman.
He then claimed to be experiencing issues with his account being frozen and asked some victims to lend him money for a short period, prosecutors said.
Sentencing him at the High Court in Kilmarnock, Judge Alistair Watson described it as "a trail of emotional devastation and financial distress".
This story is from the July 11, 2024 edition of Daily Record.
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