Adam Lapworth, 32, was jailed for two-and-a-half years for stealing £265,000. He splashed out on drugs and gambling and met with Thai women, Birmingham Crown Court heard.

Lisa Holt, of Halesowen, near Birmingham, was jailed for three years after admitting pocketing more than £100,000 from brides for wedding services she did not provide.

A woman from County Durham who claimed over £500,000 worth of benefits which she was not entitled to was caught dancing to Michael Jackson’s song Bad despite claiming she could not move her arms.

Catherine Blackett, 22, posted pictures of Thomas Raven on Facebook as a warning to others after he racked up huge debts in her name. She was shocked to discover others had similar experiences.

Proud new father and renowned academic Dr Jeroen Ensink (pictured), 41, was stabbed to death by Femi Nandap on his doorstep in Islington, north London, on December 29 last year.

Karen Spencer, 56, went on the warpath when she found out that the man she knew as Jamie Maxwell was in fact a career criminal. She plastered a poster across her Sussex town of Horsham.

Carolyn Woods candidly reveals how she was taken in by the charms of a manipulative, dangerously charismatic man 19 years her junior who she met while working at a Gloucestershire boutique.

Shravan Lattupally, 39, of Barking, Essex, helped migrants avoid deportation by producing records to make it look like they were well-paid professionals and eligible to stay in the UK.

In Britain’s biggest ever education fraud, school accounts manager Sam Kayode (pictured), from East London, spent the cash on his real wife, a second ‘wife’ and two alleged mistresses.

The Mohammed family, from Glasgow, cold-called victims posing as advisors from Visa, then hijacked the victims calls to their banks to take money from them