Make an example of callous con couple

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Because what this difficult case shows is how easily the old and unsuspecting can be duped by two-faced crooks: The conman at the door offering to do odd jobs, the chancer on the phone demanding bank details, the salesman who’s flogging garbage for four-figure sums.

Make the McLarens an example to all would-be fraudsters. Serious sentences for the seriously cruel.