{"id":697970,"date":"2026-07-18T06:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T06:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/697970\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T06:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T06:33:08","slug":"suffolk-conman-targeted-elderly-to-defraud-them-out-of-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/697970\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffolk conman targeted elderly to defraud them out of millions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long was arrested in April 2018 and in December 2018 jailed for eight months<\/a> for contempt of court when he failed to provide information to help track down his clients’ missing money.<\/p>\n

At a High Court hearing he claimed he had little more than the clothes on his back and a push bike.<\/p>\n

He was later charged with two counts of fraud by abuse of trust after he had caused 115 victims financial losses totalling \u00a311,577,762.<\/p>\n

Long pleaded guilty<\/a> to the offences in March at Southwark Crown Court and on Friday was jailed for eight years and fours months.<\/p>\n

His business associate, Raymond Simpson, who is believed to be in Portugal, was also jailed for five and a half years after being tried and convicted in his absence of two counts of fraud, one between 1 January 2014 and 23 April 2018 and the other between 1 May 2015 and 23 April 2018.<\/p>\n

During the sentencing at Southwark Crown Court, Judge Gregory Perrins considered 37 victim impact statements, excerpts of which were read by the prosecution.<\/p>\n

The court heard how Long had left some of them with feelings of “guilt and shame” while others said they hoped their late relatives would forgive them.<\/p>\n

When jailing Long, Judge Perrins said: “Your offending has taken a very heavy toll on the lives of so many and you should feel deeply ashamed.”<\/p>\n

He added that he had “abused the trust” of particularly vulnerable people “to keep your business running and so you and your family could enjoy all the trappings of wealth”.<\/p>\n

Judge Perrins said Simpson had assisted Long by using money taken from trust accounts to “invest in a series of increasingly reckless investments”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long was arrested in April 2018 and in December 2018 jailed for eight months for contempt of court…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-697970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}