I thought I’d met the love of my life on a dating app – then she conned me out of £7,800 by faking cancer

WHEN Sean Fry archetypal met Rebecca Gray connected a dating app - helium felt the sparks alert instantly.

But the present 38-year-old revealed the sick facade she enactment connected to swindle him retired of astir £10,000.

Sean was astatine archetypal besotted with the mum-of-one, and aft their sixth day she revealed she had liver cancer, and was expected to unrecorded for conscionable six much months.

But successful reality, Rebecca had nary diagnosis of crab and was alternatively trying to compression arsenic overmuch money arsenic she could retired of Sean.

Now helium reveals to Channel 4 however helium missed the informing signs.

After chatting connected Tinder, Rebecca, who went by the sanction Arrow, revealed she was surviving successful a van with her six-month-old and the repair instantly deed it off.

They decided to conscionable by the ocean, with her babe Sarah successful tow and Sean recalls: "She was confident, charismatic. She was a writer. I hadn't met anyone similar her before."

Sean's mum recalls however helium was truthful excited to conscionable idiosyncratic connected his wavelength, claiming helium was acceptable to settee down and commencement a family.

As the brace got closer, Rebecca revealed that her ex-partner and Sarah's dad, who lived successful the UK, was abusive, hence changing her sanction to Arrow truthful helium couldn't find her - but it was yet different lie.

It wasn't agelong aft that Rebecca revealed she had crab and was expected to unrecorded conscionable six much months.

Sean said: "The mode I saw Arrow was that she was conscionable a fighter. And she would transportation on.

"She would accidental however grateful she was to person maine successful her life., And we can't judge that we recovered you.

"I did truly attraction for her and Sarah arsenic well. And conscionable wanted to bash what I could to marque their lives a small spot better."

Once they moved successful together, Sean noticed that her bouts of unwellness were up and down - immoderate days she was good portion others would spot her curled connected the level successful symptom and throwing up.

He added that financially, she ever had thing successful the pipeline but failed to ever get a occupation - leaving him paying for her and her daughter.

Despite being the protective spouse astir women imagination of, Rebecca hadn't rather had her fill.

She was inactive connected Tinder and had begun a narration with different man, Steve, who remained anonymous.

Like Sean, she told him however she had terminal cancer

Rebecca did everything she could to marque her unwellness look legit - pulling retired strands of hair truthful it looked similar she was going done chemotherapy.

Sean had seen immoderate of the messages betwixt Rebecca and this man, but she brushed it disconnected saying helium was conscionable a antheral friend.

In the meantime, she fto Sean cognize she was large with his child, leaving Sean implicit the moon.

Just a fewer months aboriginal Rebecca claimed to person had a miscarriage portion camping with her daughter, leaving Sean devastated.

The world was that Rebecca was ne'er large successful the archetypal spot and was successful information with her different fellow portion she was away.

Rebecca was besides claiming to spell to court with Sarah's dada - with Sean footing the bill for lawyer fees.

The fiscal enactment helium gave the mum increased, starring him to instrumentality connected a 2nd occupation arsenic an Uber operator successful the evenings.

Then she asked Sean to travel and assistance decorate her Steve's location portion helium was successful Scotland.

Of course, she didn't archer Steve it was Sean helping and paying for the decorations - truthful helium paid Rebecca implicit £3,000 which she stashed distant for herself.

Once the renovations were complete, Sean near the house, but panicked the next time erstwhile helium hadn't heard from Rebecca.

He decided to marque his mode backmost round, erstwhile helium bumped into Steve, making his mode upstairs Sean caught Rebecca successful his bed.

Sean near and ended the narration there, but Steve did a small much detective enactment by going done her phone, realising she had lied astir everything.

"We chatted for hours and we conscionable became a mates of detectives trying to portion this communicative together," Sean said.

"Once we started talking, determination was nary uncertainty astir what was going on. Steve had a photograph successful the van connected the travel crossed the Nullarbor. I had astir the nonstop aforesaid photograph successful the van with her and Sarah connected the mode implicit to Adelaide."

"It became very clear that everything was a lie."

The brace soon realised they were some paying for Rebecca's surviving expenses and they weren't the lone ones fooled by her lies.

Her ex-partner was not abusive helium had supported her done her crab diagnosis too.

It was lone erstwhile helium began questioning doctors meetings that Rebecca decided to tally distant and determination to Australia.

Despite the lawsuit going to court, with some men providing grounds to detectives, Rebecca was spared jailhouse and fixed a suspended sentence.

While Rebecca whitethorn not person faced justice, her girl Sarah was yet fixed backmost to her dad.

Sean said: "The condemnation that she got doesn't adjacent bespeak what she, you know, did financially. And financially was the implicit slightest of it."