Romance fraudster locked up for four years

A romance fraudster who fleeced two women and carried out a £160,000 banking scam has been jailed for four years. Prince Rodriguez, 28, left one of his victims suffering sleepless nights and was branded ‘heartless’ by judge Philip Katz. The judge outlined the first romance fraud, inflicted on an elderly woman, named only as ‘Ms Dale’, as he sentenced Rodriguez at the Old Bailey. ‘It seems that over a very sustained period of time that elderly lady was the subject…