FORMER local bank worker Paul Ludden told table dancers at a strip club that he would turn their life around, the Royal Court was told on the second day of his trial yesterday.

A BANK manager stole £650,000 from an elderly client and used it to give gifts to exotic dancers and to his son, the Royal Court was told yesterday.

A PENSIONER racked by guilt about her benefit fraud has confessed to illegally claiming £55,000 over a five-year period.

AN ISLANDER convicted of masterminding a £12m. bank fraud through an internet web crime forum has lost an appeal to have his sentence reduced, his father has said.

POLICE are receiving around 30 reports of phone and internet scams every week, crime reduction officer Andy Goodall has said.

STEALING and scamming people is now easier than it has ever been, according to the star and co-writer of TV’s The Real Hustle.

TRADING STANDARDS has issued general guidance for islanders buying expensive goods following the sentencing of Chameleon Interiors’ former owner Martyn Bachelet.

CHAMELEON INTERIORS owner Martyn Bachelet has been jailed for three years after admitting defrauding his customers and deceiving a finance company out of more than £140,000.

A FAMILY accused of conning an elderly and nearly-blind woman out of more than £250,000 settled out of court yesterday moments before a civil trial action against them was due to start.

A LEADING lawyer believes a businessman’s claim to property owned by the wife of the debt-ridden former Guernsey restaurateur Howard Holland is fraudulent and a sham.