Nigerian scammer jailed, property auctioned after duping 4 women of £100,000(Photo)

Four besotted women duped out of almost £100,000 by a lonely hearts conman posing as a Marine commando will be paid back just a few hundred pounds each after a police auction of his luxury possessions.

Nigerian immigrant Adewale Adewole, 31, posed as Royal Marine commando Timmy Francis on the dating website Match.com



He falsely claimed to run an orphanage in Africa and was looking for romance under the motto: 'To live and love' and the online nickname 'Charismatic Brit'.
But after charming the unsuspecting women, he then claimed he needed money saying he had been mugged while attending to his 'orphanage'.The women all sent him cash and paid his hotel bills - only for him to transfer the money into the bank account of his wife who shared his home with their two children in Eccles, Greater Manchester.

Police who caught up with father-of-three Adewole discovered he had used the women's cash to splash out on iPads, TVs and designer clothes plus electronic and musical items such as a glitterball and a keyboard thought to be worth in total tens of thousands of pounds.

But after he was jailed for four years, officers auctioned off the confiscated items in a bid to repay the victims - only for it to yield just £2,000.

It means the women will get back only hundreds of pounds each - with one victim getting just £199. It is not known what happened to £4,500 in cash which Adewole kept under his bed and insisted was his.At an earlier court hearing Miss Brandon said the four victims were registered with Match.com and did not know each other.

 'They were all contacted on the dating site by a man called Timmy Francis who had two profiles under the mottos 'To Live and Love' and 'Charismatic Brit'. They had contact with him during the period the fraud took place via text message, phone and email.

'He told them he had been a captain in the army. He also said he ran an orphanage in Africa called the Hope House Foundation, for which he set up a website including own mobile phone number.There was a profile picture on his Match accounts and he sent some of the women photographs of himself - all of these pictures were actually of a Royal Marine Commander called Joshua McGowan who knew nothing of what was going on.

'Each of the women wanted to find out more about him and were led to believe they were in a relationship with him. Although they arranged to meet, he never kept to the arrangements and never did meet any of the victims.