Jail for boiler room crooks who preyed on the elderly

Two company directors who fleeced elderly victims out of £2m to fund their lavish lifestyles have been jailed for a total of 19 years. Paul Seakens, 60, and Luke Ryan, 33, used high pressure sales tactics to convince investors to plough their life savings into worthless carbon credits. Vulnerable victims were sold Voluntary Emission Reductions (VER) on the promise of fruitful returns but in reality it was a boiler room fraud, Southwark Crown Court heard. Investors lost a total of…