A boutique owner who was scammed by self-proclaimed 'rich kid of Instagram' Jack Watkin today described how she 'turned Miss Marple' to catch the con man.
Christine Colbert, 58, had already spent three years trying to get back almost £44,000 she had loaned the 26-year-old when she decided to take matters into her own hands.
With the help of Watkin's close friend, Hannah Jakes, 34, who was also defrauded of almost £100,000, the pair lured the fake millionaire, who was on the run from police, to a local pub with the promise of more cash.
Speaking after the former public schoolboy was convicted of the £200,000 fraud today, Ms Colbert revealed how she wore a 'large hat' as a disguise and hid in someone else's car in the car park of The Merlin public house, in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, so he would not recognise her.
But as soon as the unsuspecting Watkin arrived Mrs Colbert swung into action and dialled 999. Minutes later detectives from Cheshire police swooped to arrest him.
