![]() Murphy then asked Sharon for £5,000 to help with his medical bills, which she paid, before announcing that he wanted to leave the army for good and move in with her in Manchester. Mum and pre-school treasurer stole almost £90,000 meant for kids in 'disgraceful' fraud "So that's when I knew that's where the scammer came in, they would have had a look at the computer I think." She said: "I said, 'have you lost anything?', and he said, 'I lost my computer when I went down'. Sharon then twigged that the messages she got from the second email address was a scam. He also said he was unable to return to the army base because he'd lied and told them he was leaving to back to his family in the States, rather than his British lover. Murphy claimed that he'd been shot in the side on the way to the airport, and that he was due to stay in hospital for another six weeks. That's when I told him I'd been scammed by someone else using his email address. She said: "He wanted to know where I'd been when I'd not been in contact with him. Sharon didn't ask which hospital he was in but, believing Murphy was injured, she didn't contact him until he messaged her at the start of October. She said: "He said, 'he's unconscious but he's okay, everything is going according to plan and we're keeping him in hospital'." They asked for another £15,000 for the plane ticket and, believing it was Murphy, Sharon paid up.Īt the end of the month, she received a message from someone claiming to be a doctor who said that Murphy had been taken into hospital. In September, after talking online every day, Murphy asked if he could go and visit Sharon in Manchester.Īfter she accepted, he asked her for £1,400 to pay for his flight, and asked her to pay via Bitcoin.īut after not hearing from Murphy for a few days, she received a message from a different email address, but also with the name Murphy Townsend. I think it's because he's an older person, he had an older head."Īt the time Sharon was in a relationship with a man who'd she'd lived with for 29 years, and they had two children together. "I felt loved in a way, I felt cared for. He was very interesting when I kept talking to him. She said: "Murphy was sweet when I first met him, nothing at all made me think anything different about him. ![]()
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