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A conwoman who left an NHS worker she met on Tinder homeless and jobless after promising him a new life in Dubai before conning him out of thousands has been spared jail.
Sian White, 26, falsely claimed she was a wealthy medical lawyer with a millionaire father and concocted a series of fictional characters to convince the man his exciting Emirates opportunity was legit.
But Newcastle Crown Court heard the job and accommodation he was offered never existed, and the flights and hotel he forked out for were never reimbursed. Instead, White had used his personal details to apply for 22 loans, credit cards and bank accounts.
White, of Pickering, North Yorkshire, admitted controlling and coercive behaviour and fraud in relation to the man.
She also pleaded guilty to fraud offences in relation to landlords, housemates and other unsuspecting people she ripped off and has previous convictions for dishonesty.
Sian White, 26, (pictured) falsely claimed she was a wealthy medical lawyer with a millionaire father
Mr Recorder Toby Hedworth KC told her: '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'.
Prosecutor Michael Cahill told the court White met up with the man in person in August 2020, after they met on the online dating site, and she claimed to live in a plush city apartment in Newcastle.
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 as their relationship developed, the man wanted to move closer to Newcastle and White claimed her father would let him a home in the upscale suburb of Jesmond.
Mr Cahill said: 'He began to receive text messages from a mobile phone number who introduced himself as the father, Dave. In fact, it was the defendant.'
White, of Pickering, North Yorkshire, admitted controlling and coercive behaviour and fraud in relation to the man
The court heard 'Dave' offered a series of potential homes to the victim but there always ended up being a problem that stopped him from moving in.
After sharing his 'dreams and ambitions' with White, he eventually, in January 2021, moved into the lavish Central Lofts in the heart of Newcastle and was given a tenancy agreement from 'Dave' for his new home.
Within days he was then
