Accused Covid fraudster ‘claimed he was stuck in China’

A con artist involved in the country’s first ‘covid bounce-back’ loan fraud had been using the virus to scam people before the pandemic even came to the UK, a court heard. Adesola Abedayo, 36, allegedly created a fake dating profile in January under the name Matthew Page and told a woman he needed money to get back home from China during the pandemic. He ran another ‘catfish’ scam by posing as a woman called Tracy Fields to swindle money out…