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A 'materialistic' fraudster tried to con her former fiancé out of more than £60,000 after he broke off their wedding. Rosemary Lai, who promotes herself on social media as a model, has been locked up after she forged letters from bailiffs in a bid to force her ex to hand over the huge sum.
She branded a statement, which her ex submitted to the court detailing the impact of her crimes, as 'mainly lies'. The pair had met on the online dating site Plenty of Fish in 2017 before he proposed to Lai the following year, Manchester Crown Court heard. "The defendant was very money focused in the relationship and materialistic," prosecutor Mark Pritchard said. The victim said he paid for 'everything' during their relationship.
Lai, 31, from Longsight, was aware he had inherited a 'sum of money' and a property following the death of his grandmother. After the proposal, Lai started researching 'expensive' wedding venues.
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"The complainant told her that they were beyond his means, and they needed to look for cheaper venues," the prosecutor said. "Eventually the issues involving the wedding came to a head and the complainant broke off the engagement."
Following their break-up, in 2019 the man fell victim to a scam in which he paid out £3,000. Lai was not involved in that incident.
He was sectioned after his mental health deteriorated and was admitted to hospital. Lai contacted his father to report she was unable to contact her ex because her phone was broken.
He bought her a new phone, but she never contacted her ex with it. Over the next three years, the victim began to receive letters, claiming to be from bailiffs, relating to payments of £63,488 which he was
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