Liverpool Crown Court (240)
TWO Southport-based fraudsters who helped to con more than £1.8m from elderly and vulnerable victims have been ordered to pay back over £630,000.
An asset recovery team secured the confiscation orders, totalling £630,846, following a hearing at Liverpool Crown Court last week.
Wilfred Roy Aspinwall, 71, and Paul Watson, 46, both from the Southport area, pleaded guilty to money laundering and in January 2008 were each sentenced to three years imprisonment. Watson's wife Jacqueline, 50, was sentenced to 240 hours’ community service.
Their offences were facilitated by a salesman who used high-pressure sales to persuade elderly victims to part with thousands of pounds for air purifiers, dehumidifiers and maintenance contracts at inflated prices.
He gained victims’ trust by purporting to work for a Southport security company.
