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A man who jilted his fiancée three times has been ordered to repay thousands of pounds she had given him or go to jail.
Ian Oldford, 41, ran off with £9,000 belonging to a widowed mother of three, Marie Hibberd, when she was five months pregnant with his child.
Gloucester Crown Court had heard that Mrs Hibberd, 37, had become pregnant because Oldford falsely claimed to be suffering from prostate cancer and told her it was his last chance to have a family.
Three times Oldford, a car salesman from Taunton, Somerset, fixed dates for a church wedding and then cancelled at the last minute. On the last occasion Mrs Hibberd received a telephone call 20 minutes before the ceremony was due to start, telling her that he had been in a car accident and had to go to hospital. She never heard from him again.
She later contacted police but there was a long delay before the case was investigated.
Judge Jamie Tabor, QC, told Oldford: “You are a conman and you’ve conned Mrs Hibberd over a long period of time, which was utterly despicable. Three times you told her you would be getting married and three times you called it off. She was a widow and highly vulnerable and, as if that wasn’t enough, you then found someone else.
“This was a terrible breach of trust. Your behaviour was utterly disgraceful.
“If this case had been investigated properly and come to court in 2003 rather than belatedly now, you would have gone straight to prison.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1832176.ece
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