Conwoman, 26, left NHS worker she met on Tinder homeless & jobless in ‘toxic warped’ fraud that drained him of savings
A CONWOMAN left a man she met on Tinder homeless and jobless after she drained him of his savings.
Sian White, 26, told lie after lie to her beau - claiming she was a wealthy medical lawyer with a millionaire dad.
She then dreamed up a series of fictional characters to convince the man that they could move to Dubai for the long term.
However, it was all a fib and the NHS worker was left broke, with nowhere to live and no income coming in.
The Newcastle Crown Court heard how White had made up the job and accommodation he was offered - while using his personal details to apply for 22 loans, credit cards and bank accounts.
The conwoman today pleaded guilty to controlling and coercive behaviour and fraud in relation to the man.
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White also pleaded guilty to fraud offences in relation to landlords, housemates and other unsuspecting people she ripped off - all while having previous convictions for dishonesty.
Prosecutor Michael Cahill told the court White linked up with the man in August 2020, after they met on Tinder.
It was then that she claimed to live in a plush city apartment in Newcastle, and had a millionare father who was a property developers.
Mr Cahill said: "She presented as a young, successful, professional.
"She told him her father was a successful millionaire property developer who owned property around the country. The millionaire father was fictional."
The court heard how as the couple's relationship progressed, the man decided he wanted to shift closer to White.
She told him her "millionaire" father Dave could let him a home in the upmarket suburb of Jesmond - and he started to get texts from a man named Dave.
However, it was White messaging him the entire time.
In January 2021, "Dave" helped the man land a lavish home in Central Lofts and he moved in.
Within days he was offered the chance to move abroad after landing his "dream" job in Dubai - so he handed in his notice to the NHS.
White's fictional father "Dave" then said there was an issue with flights, so the man forked out £600 to buy the pair new ones on the agreement that he would be reimbursed.
During this time she created other characters to further her fraud.
Michael Cahill
Again, it was all a lie.
White and the victim were in Dubai for almost two months.
In that time she continued to spin her web of lies, made up more characters to keep up the facade.
Mr Cahill told the court: "During this time she created other characters to further her fraud. There was James the manager who was contacting him to set up employment, orgainise blood tests. There was Sophie the HR manager."
But it was when the victim got a call from Central Lofts, which he thought was his home, questioning why his car was there.
It turned out the home was a 30-day rental taken out by White, and "her lies began to unravel".
She has a number of issues, feeling the need to impress, embelish and make herself look better than she is.
Jeremy Barton
Speaking in his victim impact statement, the man described the 26-year-old as "toxic and warped individual".
Mr Recorder Toby Hedworth KC told White: "You have demonstrated the ability to be one of the most compulsively dishonest defendants to appear before this court and that's saying something.
"You employed extremely sophisticated methods to defraud perfectly ordinary people who were either offering accommodation, were sharing accommodation, were seeking accommodation or just people you sought to take advantage of."
The recorder said the victim at the centre of the Dubai scam was "well and truly conned in a wholesale way".
Jeremy Barton, defending, said White has now enrolled on a pregraduate university course - and has insight into her offending.
Mr Barton said: "She has a number of issues, feeling the need to impress, embelish and make herself look better than she is."
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Recorder Hedworth agreed there had been a "radical change" in White's behaviour and there is suggestion she could have a personality disorder.
He sentenced her to two years, suspended for two years, with rehabilitation requirements and 150 hours unpaid work.
Sian White's offending prior to Tinder victim:
The fraud offences White admitted relate to £1,000 worth of purchases made on a housemate's bank cards in shared accommodation, using over £100 on another roommate's card to book an "escape room trip", failing to pay £1,160 rent at another property, both in 2018.
White also advertised a room to rent in Wakefield in 2018 and accepted a £395 deposit from a student who was then left out of pocket and unable to move in.
In 2019 she posed as a law firm employee to rent a property belonging to a doctor, using forged references then failed to pay £4,375 in rent.
When the owner finally got control back of his home he needed to replace carpets and said there was "rubbish everywhere".
In 2020 White met up with a woman who she left £118 out of pocket in a trasaction over false eyelashes.
That same year White met with a woman who had formed a Facebook group for people interested in spending summers in Majorca.
White took the woman's phone and used her details to transfer £11,000 from her mother's bank account, which was eventually recovered.
White also met up with an ex but "forgot" her card during a day out and said she would pay half but never sent the money. She then used his details to apply for a Lloyds TSB bank account and a Capital One credit card in his name.
She also failed to pay rent at another privately rented accommodation, where the owner again found "rubbish everywhere", mouldy takeaway food, sanitary products and bloodstained bedsheets when she finally gained access.