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'Despicable' Plenty of Fish lothario had sex with woman then stole her car
Duncan Flett defrauded hundreds of pounds from the victims through fake romances
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
A "despicable" Scots lothario who defrauded lonely women in a series of fake romances has been jailed for 33 months.
Duncan Flett snared his victims on dating sites, including Plenty of Fish.
The 48-year-old lured one woman into meeting him in a luxury hotel, had sex with her in a bedroom, then stole her car as she waited for him to join her in the restaurant.
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He borrowed another date's six-year-old car and sold it for £40 scrap, and sent a third woman bouquets of flowers with her own money and took her on a VIP treat to the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo - fraudulently charged to own mother's credit card.
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He told another Fife woman, whom he met on Plenty of Fish, that his name was Duncan McDonald, he lived in Glenrothes, and he was a delivery driver.
After meeting him in the Fife Arms, Kirkcaldy, she took him home to Methil, Fife.
On December 6, 2019 she let him use her car, and received a message the next day saying he had been taken to hospital and couldn't return it.
In fact he was meeting another woman at the Miller and Carter Steakhouse in Crammond Brig, Edinburgh.
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"They had a drink in the bar before going to a bedroom and having consensual sex.
"Afterwards they went back downstairs.
"When she went to look at the restaurant menu she realised she had left her glasses upstairs and he said he would go and retrieve them."
When after 20 minutes she realised he wasn't coming back, she borrowed a pass key and went to their room.
Mr Maguire said: "She found his bags were gone, her car keys had been stolen, and when she went outside her car had been stolen too."
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