A JAILED conman who swindled £105,000 from three woman he met through the dating site Plenty of Fish has been ordered to pay back £19,300 to two of his victims within the next three months.
Fantasist Zac Langley, 41, who is serving a five year prison sentence, pretended to be a Royal Marine, an MoD intelligence officer, a successful property developer and a shipping magnate to get the women to part with their money.
Claire Cooper, 34, and her mother Muriel, 60, bought Langley two luxury Range Rovers worth more than £120,000, as well as giving him a further £20,000 for bogus medical fees.
At a proceeds of crime hearing held at Bournemouth Crown Court on Friday, it was revealed that when Langley was arrested he had a Hugo Boss wallet containing £550 in his pocked.
He also owned three flash watches worth a combined £1,500, and £7,500-worth of clothes.
Judge Jonathan Fuller ordered that Langley, who appeared via video link, pay the Coopers almost £20,000 by the summer.
And he could have to pay back more, should he come into any money in the future. The £20,000 is the sum of his current assets.
There is no time limit on this repayment proccess.
His third victim, single mother Danielle Allen, was tricked into buying him a brand new £31,000 Mercedes, as well as paying for a £2,000 weekend stay in Bath after he proposed to her and promised to build a £4 million family home.
The Coopers lost £103,000 to Langley's scams while Mrs Allen ended up just under £2,000 out of pocket.
Former army nurse Ms Cooper, who was recently divorced, became "smitten" with Langley and her mother was also charmed by him when they met in December 2015. They were together for several months.
While they were together, Langley started a second relationship with Mrs Allen, a marketing executive at Ordnance Survey, who he whisked away on lavish weekends including a trip to Rick Stein's Edmund Hotel in Padstow and a weekend in Bath.
Langley, of Yarrow Road in Poole, was described as a "serial fraudster" with 20 aliases, and a string of 12 convictions for 74 fraud-related offences dating back to May 2000.
He was caught when detectives from Dorset Police's fraud department traced his actions.
Langley - real name Andrew Penfold - was jailed for five years and six months on November 14, 2016, after he pleaded guilty to five counts of fraud and eight breaches of a court order that banned him from offending again.
Ms Cooper warned other women to steer clear of Langley when he is released from prison.
She said: "He'll be on the warpath again and will be on another dating website. There will be another woman who will fall victim to him.
"I just want to get his name out there and warn women not to touch him with a barge pole.
"I despise him. I would like to put his face on a massive billboard so women will know what he looks like and stay away from him."
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