Ex pro rugby player was ‘phone conman’

A former rugby player was part of a gang who used the details of thousands of students to con mobile phone companies out of millions of pounds in sham contracts, a court heard. Second-row forward Alexander Karonias, 32, played for London Scottish between 2008 and 2014 until being forced to retire by back injury problems. Karonias, Jonathan Boorman, 32, Jonathan’s father Michael Boorman, 65, Robert Morrison, Charles Shelton, both 31, and Thomas Maynard, 26, have admitted their roles in the…