Teenager turned £2,000 into £21million in a year

[Soov535]

What a tool.

[KFC]

As usual, its absolutely horrible reporting though. If he really had things like a £180k Ferrari then you could make the assumption a £100k fraud was just a deal gone horribly wrong, and very easily righted by giving someone a cheque.

Given the Ferrari appears to be part of a bigger scam / set of lies and never actually existed, I'm guessing he took peoples money to invest. Or he just got a load of credit lines for consumer goods based off the Mails last shoddy reporting

The quality of reporting in that rag is truly embarrassing... I don't know why I bother reading it (other than it being free)

[Vixpy1]

Well the Ferrari was a fake, I'm guessing he's blagged that flat he rents , and not paid for it

[TheHound]

What a Twunt!

[red_slr]

I am shocked.. never saw this coming.

[anonymous-user]

st i invested with him..

[anonymous-user]

bandits all round here aren't there?

the 'trader'
the reporter
the editor

all of them have to be bandits for that to get in the paper

[arguti]

All can be summed up in the last two lines from the Daily Mail article-

"He said he was hoping to set up his own brokerage firm in Plymouth and wanted to take on 30 staff.

He is due to appear at Plymouth Magistrates' Court on July 1. "

[Deisel Weisel]

Update

Sentenced to 26 months in prison: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3181350/Te...

Father making 'efforts' to repay those he defrauded.

[Bedford Rascal]

Deisel Weisel said:

Isn't that the Jamie Beeston fella?

[veevee]

"Teen was caught after detectives noticed the £165,000 supercar was a fake."

[Turkish91]

Outstanding... Good to see that little sheriff liar behind bars!

[JamieBeeston]

swerni said:

Bedford Rascal said:

Deisel Weisel said:

Isn't that the Jamie Beeston fella?

You're very bad.
But that was my first thought as well

Cheeky Sods!

[daemon]

veevee said:

"Teen was caught after detectives noticed the £165,000 supercar was a fake."

Razor sharp in crime squad.

[MentalSarcasm]

"After admitting the fraud to police, Cook told officers: 'This has had a big effect on my family and completely ruined my chances of getting a job in finance'."

Did he really think he'd get a job in finance with 2 GCSEs? Or was he hoping that the interviews he did would lead to him being "head hunted" by companies?

[EskimoArapaho]

Oops. Claiming remorse didn't quite work out: 2 year sentence.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/judge-jails-t...

Posting that photo was probably dad's idea.

[hornetrider]

EskimoArapaho said:

Oops. Claiming remorse didn't quite work out: 2 year sentence.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/judge-jails-t...

Posting that photo was probably dad's idea.

What a monumental fking dick.

[anonymous-user]

hell get bullied to st in prison, hopefully.

Only real justice. he will be out on tag 6 months doing this again.

[vsonix]

Local papers in the South West are so full of bullcrap that it's a genuine shock when they come out with even the tiniest nugget of truth. The tiniest stories are usually blown out of all proportion, I think it's because half the time they feel they have to make stuff up as there's no genuine drama to report on much of the time.