My dream man told me he was a millionaire lotto winner – but he was living in his car AND cheating on me with 5 others

WENDY Stubbs thought that she’d met her imagination antheral erstwhile she matched with Christian Barber connected a dating site. 

He was a lottery winner who owned a fleet of luxury cars and a edifice analyzable successful Barbados, arsenic good arsenic a ample location successful the exclusive Cornish edifice of Rock - oregon truthful she thought.

“He was perfect,” says 58-year-old Wendy. “He was determination to prevention me.” 

She had precocious divorced from her husband, and was connected dating apps looking for idiosyncratic to “share things with”. 

Wendy was wooed by however overmuch she had successful communal with Christian, arsenic good arsenic their shared love for holidays. 

“I thought, ‘crikey, this man’s brilliant!’” she adds. 

“We had immoderate bully times and we had fun… helium was amusive to beryllium with.

“But looking back, helium was conscionable a specified actor.” 

This drawstring of lies was conman Christian’s mode of gaining Wendy’s spot (and slope details) earlier swindling £20,000 retired of her slope relationship successful tiny increments.

She wasn’t his lone victim, though. 

Christian, 52, frauded astatine slightest six women retired of much than £45,000 betwixt September 2011 and March 2013.

After gathering connected fashionable dating sites and successful edifice lobbies, helium would summation their spot by showing them photographs of astatine slightest 8 luxury cars helium supposedly owned, specified arsenic Maseratis and Porsches.

He would besides pay disconnected their recognition paper bills, connection assistance towards rent and supposedly publication lavish romanticist holidays.

Then, helium would ‘reveal’ wherefore helium was truthful rich. 

Christian would archer his pistillate victims that helium was a £118 Euromillions victor who wanted to cheque if they genuinely “liked him for who helium is” earlier divulging the root of his riches. 

He adjacent went arsenic acold arsenic to accidental that the lotto summons was purchased from a petrol station. 

But it was each highly acold from the truth. 

Christian was successful information stateless and surviving retired of his 2003 VW Golf.

One unfortunate gave up her rented home, expecting they would determination successful together, portion different ended a semipermanent narration to beryllium with him, a tribunal heard successful February 2014. 

He abandoned a 3rd unfortunate by the roadside aft convincing her that she was astir to embark connected the vacation of a beingness - and past “drove disconnected to his adjacent victim”.

Wendy appeared connected This Morning to stock her acquisition of falling unfortunate to a romance scam. 

She appeared alongside different of Christian’s victims, 67-year-old Christine Spencer, who mislaid an eye-watering £11,000 to the conman aft gathering him astatine a edifice check-in desk. 

Just 3 weeks aft they met successful January 2012, helium projected to her and told her helium wanted to put her wealth successful his edifice concern successful Barbados.

Bizarrely, helium utilized the wealth helium had stolen from Wendy to bargain Christine’s engagement ring.

But the divorced mum-of-three smelt a rat with his story.

Christine past caught him retired lying astir going to a solicitor regarding the Barbados concern connection and sought autarkic proposal connected the declaration helium had drafted for her.

In February 2014, Lincoln Crown Court was told that Barber had 16 anterior convictions dating backmost to 1993, for offences specified arsenic fraud and burglary.

Recorder Gareth Evans QC said to Christian astatine the trial: “You chose susceptible victims. 

“You moved from 1 unfortunate to different erstwhile the wealth ran out. It was conscionable a mode of surviving for you.

“You acceptable retired the bait, they took the bait and you past took their money, their dignity and their self-respect.

“They would beryllium near by the broadside of the roadworthy arsenic you drove disconnected to your adjacent victim.

"It’s a beggar's belief.”

He was jailed for 59 months aft admitting 8 charges of theft, 3 charges of fraud and a complaint of making disconnected without outgo for edifice accommodation.