Jail for the diamond fraudsters

Three fraudsters who raked in hundreds of thousands of pounds by tricking vulnerable customers into buying non-existent diamonds have been jailed for a total of 14 years. Mastermind Gilbert King, 49, together with Stephen Rogers, 55, and Bobby Sales, 31, fooled investors into purchasing what they thought were coloured diamonds through a sham company called Stockdale Alternative. But company records show that only one diamond was ever purchased on behalf of a client – who was billed £10,000 when the…