He swindled £212k from diplomat’s daughter to spend on women half his age

A financier who made a Commonwealth diplomat’s daughter homeless when he fleeced her to spend a fortune on his young girlfriends has been jailed for almost five years. Maurice Kelly, 64, swindled £212,223 from literary translator Sarah Robertson between 27 November 2014 and 23 March 2016. The victim thought she was investing in shares in an asset management firm when she was in fact funding Kelly’s ‘lavish lifestyle’. Prosecutor Gareth Munday described how Kelly set up Tam Asset Management Ltd…