Yachtsman jailed after conning three women out of £70,000
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A fraudster dubbed ‘Shrek' who was jailed for conning women out of thousands of pounds is behind bars again after duping three more women in an online scam.
Peter Berry, 51, befriended victims through online dating sites before persuading them to pump cash into fake business investments.
He then went on to spend the cash on sporting equipment, underwater cameras and a personalised registration bearing the number 666.
The 20-stone balding lothario embarked on his latest crime spree after he was released early from a five-year jail term, which he was given in 2010 for 19 fraud offences.
Peter Berry has been jailed for eight years after conning women out of cash in a romance scam. After he was released from prison for the case tried in 2010, he was spotted by police sporting a beard and faking an eastern European accent
Following that conviction, one of his victims - Sara Terry - compared him to Shrek.
She said she fell for his 'warm eyes' but added: 'He was 6ft 2in, weighed about 20 stone and looked like the cartoon character Shrek.'
After serving just two years he was released on licence and quickly started where he had left off, fleecing three more women between October 2012 and October 2013.
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Berry was spotted in a London bar sporting a thick beard and talking in an Eastern European accent after police appealed for information on him in 2014.
Detectives believe he may have swindled up to £2million from more than 100 women during his career of crime after targets included a lawyer, GP and a fund manager, with one investigator saying Berry 'had a PhD in deception'.
Berry, a yachtsman, set a new world record in May 2001, skippering the Netergy.com trimaran from Plymouth to La Rochelle 10 hours faster than anyone before him
As Berry was jailed for eight years, it emerged that:
Berry posed as a Harvard graduate with a PhD in physics to con lab technician Kate Peel
He duped women to plunge thousands into fake business investment opportunities
The fraudster was freed early from a five-year jail term for similar offences - only to promptly start conning fresh targets
Detectives fear the fraudster may have conned as much as £2million from more than 100 female victims
The yachtsman set a new world record in May 2001, skippering the Netergy.com trimaran from Plymouth to La Rochelle 10 hours faster than anyone before him - only to smash his own record the following year
Berry also persuaded victims to lend him money through extravagant lies including needing to help friends trapped in the Himalayas and conned one woman out of £1,000 after claiming he nC4E6WLMm0735Fn
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Peter Berry, 51, befriended victims through online dating sites before persuading them to pump cash into fake business investments.
He then went on to spend the cash on sporting equipment, underwater cameras and a personalised registration bearing the number 666.
The 20-stone balding lothario embarked on his latest crime spree after he was released early from a five-year jail term, which he was given in 2010 for 19 fraud offences.
Peter Berry has been jailed for eight years after conning women out of cash in a romance scam. After he was released from prison for the case tried in 2010, he was spotted by police sporting a beard and faking an eastern European accent
Following that conviction, one of his victims - Sara Terry - compared him to Shrek.
She said she fell for his 'warm eyes' but added: 'He was 6ft 2in, weighed about 20 stone and looked like the cartoon character Shrek.'
After serving just two years he was released on licence and quickly started where he had left off, fleecing three more women between October 2012 and October 2013.
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Berry was spotted in a London bar sporting a thick beard and talking in an Eastern European accent after police appealed for information on him in 2014.
Detectives believe he may have swindled up to £2million from more than 100 women during his career of crime after targets included a lawyer, GP and a fund manager, with one investigator saying Berry 'had a PhD in deception'.
Berry, a yachtsman, set a new world record in May 2001, skippering the Netergy.com trimaran from Plymouth to La Rochelle 10 hours faster than anyone before him
As Berry was jailed for eight years, it emerged that:
Berry posed as a Harvard graduate with a PhD in physics to con lab technician Kate Peel
He duped women to plunge thousands into fake business investment opportunities
The fraudster was freed early from a five-year jail term for similar offences - only to promptly start conning fresh targets
Detectives fear the fraudster may have conned as much as £2million from more than 100 female victims
The yachtsman set a new world record in May 2001, skippering the Netergy.com trimaran from Plymouth to La Rochelle 10 hours faster than anyone before him - only to smash his own record the following year
Berry also persuaded victims to lend him money through extravagant lies including needing to help friends trapped in the Himalayas and conned one woman out of £1,000 after claiming he nC4E6WLMm0735Fn
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