Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Another 4 yrs for conman in £7.5m refusal
A FRAUDSTER who targeted elderly investors yesterday got another four years in jail for failing to pay back £7.5million.
Jeffrey Revell-reade, 53, bought yachts, mansions, luxury cars and watches with his boiler room scam.
With an accomplice, he hired a team of salesmen to trick vulnerable victims into investing money.
Australian Revell-reade, of Coaley, Glos, made over £43.8million.
He was convicted of conspiracy to defraud and jailed for nine and a half years in 2014.
He was last year told to repay £7.5million, but has given less than £3.5million.
District Judge Michael Snow said at Westminster magistrates court: “He is wilfully refusing to settle his order.” A MUM is suing Thomas Cook after her five-year-old daughter was “abducted” from a children’s club at a hotel in Turkey.
Janet Alexander, 46, said she feared Rose, five, was “dead or faced being trafficked and abused” after vanishing with a stranger.
The single mum had taken her and sister Lois, nine, to Royal Wings Hotel in Antalya in April for their first break abroad together.
She left Rose at a supervised play area and took Lois to a scuba diving lesson. But when she returned an hour later, Rose was missing and a “frantic” 20-minute search began.
The panic ended when another guest spotted Rose near the main road with a woman wearing a hijab.
Ms Alexander, a senior NHS nurse, said: “I was distraught. There was chaos as everybody started running around. This has been the most traumatic experience of my life. I thought my daughter was either dead or faced being trafficked and abused. I’ve been shaking and in tears ever since. I struggle to leave the kids at school now.”
Rose and the woman were brought back to the hotel but the woman then left.
Rose said she thought the woman, who invited her to “go for a walk”, was a play area worker.
Ms Alexander said hotel staff talked to the woman in Turkish but then failed to answer her questions about the incident, so she went to police.
Officers said they could do nothing as Rose was returned
ON FEARS DURING SEARCH