Suspended sentence for conman who has spent a lifetime preying on the elderly

A career conman who posed as his pensioner victims to withdraw thousands of pounds from their bank accounts was spared jail. Shaun Millard, 69, turned up at branches of Santander and Barclays claiming to be Richard Towner on four separate occasions between June and August last year. Mr Towner, from Muswell Hill, northwest London, was unaware anything was amiss until he received a call from his bank asking whether he had changed his PIN. He was told there was a…