A romance fraudster told his girlfriend that his mother was dead and he needed money for her funeral as he swindled her out of more than £15,000.
Andrew New claimed that he needed his partner's cash in order to arrange his mother's funeral, despite her remaining alive and well to this day.
In fact he was using it to fund his cocaine addiction.
She also transferred him money to enable him to buy Champions League final tickets on the empty promise that he would pay her back.
But the man who now says he is a born-again Christian, who previously found himself in the dock after scamming a woman he met on dating site Plenty of Fish, has been spared an immediate prison sentence due to his case taking years to come to court.
