£475k fraudster jailed

A FRAuDsTeR who swindled victims out of £475,000 has been jailed for four and a half years at southwark Crown Court.

Lee Denton, 33, of Oxted, in surrey, defrauded 42 people and spent thousands of pounds they gave him on bars, restaurants, luxury hotels and designer goods after setting up a fake investment company called TB Options in August 2015, claiming it was a City trading platform.