‘Help, my wife’s going into labour!’

A sob story swindler who exploits his victim’s generosity by pretending he is in a dire family emergency has been sent to jail for ten weeks. Darren Bingham, 39, knocks on people’s doors and tells them his wife has gone into labour or he has locked himself out of the house and needs money for a taxi. Another ruse used by the heartless crook is that his father has just had a massive heart attack and he needs to rush…