Jonathan Price; just how blind is love?
The folks at Walter Mitty Hunt Club send us their latest “Walt” – Jonathan Price who was also a grifter who some how convinced women that he was a millionaire, and an SAS trooper, and proceeded to bilk them out of their life savings;
He now faces jail after pleading guilty to fraud totalling £180,000 – leaving three women and their parents without their life savings.
Price, from Darlington, told his unsuspecting targets that he had vast sums of money in offshore accounts and was suffering from terminal cancer.
The conman then wined and dined each girlfriend using the cash he got from his other victims. He even proposed to one, booking a £96,000 wedding at an exclusive hotel.
So convincing was he that his victims persuaded their elderly parents to help him out when he claimed to have encountered cash flow problems, believing he was more than capable of paying back their loans.
Teesside Crown Court heard that Price was really a penniless ‘serial’ fraudster who left a trail of victims traumatised and facing financial ruin.
He has served four prison sentences and collected seven previous convictions for dishonesty from across the UK over the past two decades.
He also pretended to be suffering from cancer, so I’m not sure the women were all that innocent. You can’t cheat an honest man, or woman. That doesn’t mitigate his crimes, though. There’s more at the link that you should read. He’s an entertaining fellow, but he certainly doesn’t look like anyone I’ve ever met from the British paras.
Category: Phony soldiers
Judging by those multiple chins, I’d say he might have EATEN an SAS trooper, but that’s about it.
“What color is the boat house at Hereford?”
“You can’t cheat an honest man, or woman.”
Seriously? Did I read that right? Is that your attempt at an April Fool’s joke?
PN–put it this way–look at why the Nigerian 409, et al, scams are so popular. Would an HONEST person believe that someone was just going to up and leave them millions of dollars for a simple “processing fee?”
It’s not just a question of honesty as far as the lie/cheat/steal variety. Sometimes INTERNAL honesty plays a big part too.
@3 If Jonn is looking at it from the angle of the women getting involved with him because they thought they’d only have to put up with him until he died, that would be one thing. I was looking at it as a man who preyed on women by winning their affections. Do you think a plain or ugly HONEST woman is going to be honest enough to admit that a man paying attention to her is doing so to con her? I mean, she probably has a mirror, right?
The Nigerian scams have to do with making a lot of money quickly, so it’s a form of greed that catches the victim. But this kind of con? If hearts were involved, then the women were vulnerable. That’s why I questioned what Jonn said, because simply assuming the women got involved for the money is jumping to conclusions.
Turd.
Price truly looks like he’s all et up with guilt over being found out.
PH2–naw, that’s just his pose for the position he’ll be assuming for the Brit version of Bubba soon enough.
@4 PN–fair enough. But being the worldly folks we are, we know that you don’t just fall in love right off the bat, and if money comes up in the conversation prior to proposing, that’s a HUGE red flag.
Sorry, but there just aren’t that many rich nymphomaniacs who own liquor stores. Believe me, I’ve looked.
@8 LMAO!
If I find any Sparky, I’ll be sure to let you know. 🙂
My cousin John from Wales had sent me the Daily Mirror article about this clown. I caught some heat at work for making the comment “Well, the victims were found through their ads on sugardaddies.com. Do the math…” I have zero doubt the TAH crowd will get what I meant.
@7 – LMAO.
Flattery will get you everywhere but into my bank account.
He should be incarcerated UNDER the jail, and throw away the key(s), with the bars just a little too close together for a skinny man to escape. Then let him figure it out. Think he will?
@4, I know, I spent part of my 20’s looking for one.
I meant #8 not #4
Mouthwash.
If needed.
Turd.
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Yeah, guess what, stupid — this dork is a Brit, not American. You should try reading the blog posts before you shoot your mouth off, asshole.
Hey, everybody!!!! Looky here, looky here! It’s pickwickre peckerwood a/k/a Paul K Wickre the Wickre Mann in person, as I expected. I said there was one more day for him to erupt and spew all over TAH.
Damn! I’m good!!!!
Wicker, get a life, you dumb, stump-sucking, wart-ridden corpse plant. You’re using up air that real people need. And quite pretending you represent Phildo. You don’t. You are a cheap imitation of reality.
Piss off. And quit drinking in the dark. You are SO stupid you don’t even know you’re alive.