Cambridge landlord con

A conman managed to steal thousands of pounds by posing as a Cambridge landlord after writing a rental advert on Gumtree that a attracted unsuspecting tenants to a an empty rental property.

Lithuanian Marius Sperauskas, 26, took rental deposit money totalling £5,400 from the prospective tenants he showed around an empty rental property that he'd somehow gained access to. The viewings lead to three couples agreeing tenancies only to arrive back at the rental property to find it already occupied.

Sperauskas was sentenced to 18 months by Judge Jonathan Hawkesworth, who in summary commented 

“It was a particularly mean and unpleasant offence because there you were a foreigner in this country targeting foreigners who were in this country seeking to work hard and contribute to the city in which they lived undoubtedly short of money and desperate to find appropriate accommodation for themselves.