POSED AS MR RIGHT TO CON REBECCA My Tinder lover faked a kidney transplant to con me out of savings

head and I collapsed. I was then rushed to hospital and they had to drain fluid off my brain.

“I threatened to call the police and he said he’d get my money back to me but I stopped hearing from him.”

Rebecca eventually tracked down Gillett’s parents online.

Devastated

She said: “I had a phone call with his parents and they told me they hadn’t heard from him for eight months.

“They told me he wasn’t a funeral director and he never had any kidney problems.

“They kept saying sorry for what he’d done. It was all a lie. I was devastated.

“Paul had also left his car in front of our house the whole time he’d been gone and when my mum and I went to inspect it, we saw a packet of surgical dressings in there from Boots. We started to doubt further sales of non-existent tickets to anything he’d told us was truthful.” Sheeran gigs and the sale of two drones

Rebecca contacted the police and they and an iphone that also did not exist. informed her that Gillett was on their Combined with his kidney con, Gillett radar for selling fake Ed Sheeran tickets raked in £7,500 from other scams. He was online. jailed for three t years.

Rebecca nearly lost hope ope The judge heard that Gillett that he would be caught but still owed £12,500 to victims then she got a call from m of a fraud in 2012 but had

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West Mercia Police this s not paid back a penny. January. Rebecca, now a care

He had been tracked home worker, said: “I was down and arrested. completely devastated

In March, Gillett, of and so disappointed when Carmarthen, South Wales, it all came out. admitted three counts of “I feel foolish for falling fraud at Worcester crown for his lies but I really becourt. lieved he was a good guy and

They included stealing from Rebecca I thought we had something good. and taking money for Ed Sheeran tickets “I spent years saving up the money. he did not have. “I was hoping to spend it on a holiday

The court also heard details of 19 for my mum and me but it was all taken