Pensioner conned by fraudsters posing as police officers

  A pensioner was conned out of £90,000 by ‘clever and ruthless’ fraudsters who posed as police officers and bank officials to loot his bank account. Michael Garrett, 70, received a string of phone calls to persuade him someone had stolen his identity and he needed to transfer funds to ‘safe’ bank accounts under police control. But jurors heard the accounts were in fact controlled by people who were in on the scam, including Loula Bavura, 21, Peter Morrison, 25,…