 Pass boasted of his crimes to TV host Trisha |
A man who conned banks out of thousands of pounds has been jailed for four years after being snared by TV chat show host Trisha Goddard. Ian Pass, 52, of Salisbury, Wiltshire, was convicted of theft, forgery and obtaining services by deception.
Hove Crown Court heard how he boasted on the TV show last year, that his life of crime had netted more than �2.5m.
A shop assistant suspicious of a card he was using in Horsham, West Sussex, then alerted police three days later.
The woman had watched the show in which Goddard, angered by his bragging, had got the cameras to zoom in on Pass's face saying: "Now you know his face don't let him con you."
When Pass was arrested, police found bank cards on him that he had taken out in other people's names and then run up huge bills with.
He had changed his name so that his own bank cards said ID Pass.
The judge in his four-day trial described him as a "full-time trickster".
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