He conned his friends to make £3m

A fake stockbroker who tricked his lifelong friends out of millions of pounds to pay for his children’s private school education has been jailed for five years. Mark Starling, 57, defrauded his closest companions, some of whom he had known for over 20 years, out of £3 million using a ‘classic Ponzi scheme.’ He claimed to be running three funds, the ‘Pilot Dax Fund’, the ‘Shadow Dax Fund’ and the ‘Pilot Eurostoxx Fund’, and described himself as a ‘proprietary futures…