Ex para ripped off 86-year-old

A former parachute regiment Army captain who tricked a retired businessman out of £67,000 after adding him to his ‘suckers list’ has been jailed for two years. Richard Templeton, 61, targeted the 86-year-old from a list he kept of previously conned people who might be easily swindled again. The victim had previously invested £4m in wealth management companies and made modest profits. He was encouraged to invest larger sums before the people he had been contacted by disappeared. The pensioner…