Pensioners lost life savings to boiler room fraudsters

An Irish tycoon and three cronies conned elderly investors out of £3.5 million by promising huge returns on worthless carbon credits and inferior diamonds, a court heard. Dylan Creaven, 44, was the ‘prime mover’ who set up two fraudulent companies and financed the setting up of plush ‘boiler room’ office suites in Buchanan House, St James’s Square, central London, it is claimed. Matthew Mansell, 31, his right hand man, along with Andrew Rowe, 41, and Matthew Navin, 24, were relentless…