Window cleaning scam conman preyed on elderly
Sep 9 2010 Huddersfield Daily Examiner
John Foggo
A CONMAN who tricked victims – including a 90-year-old woman – out of cash has been jailed.
Heroin addict John Foggo, 29, was sent to prison for five-and-a-half years and a judge at Leeds Crown Court expressed surprise that he had been granted bail by magistrates and then went on to commit a further offence.
The Recorder of Leeds, Judge Peter Collier, QC, told Foggo: “It seems to me almost inevitable somebody will commit further offences as you did.’’
Foggo, of Oliver Gardens, Mirfield, admitted three charges of fraud and one of burglary. He asked for 18 other offences to be considered.
The frauds related to offences he committed by posing as a window cleaner to trick people out of cash.
After he had been arrested for these crimes he was given bail, but then went on to sneak into a man’s home in Cleckheaton and stole a camera.
On June 3 Foggo knocked on the door of a house on Trinity Street, Mirfield, where he claimed to be a window cleaner and asked for money. He conned a 40-year-old woman into handing some over.
Six days later Foggo went to the home of a 90-year-old woman on Huddersfield Road, Mirfield, again claiming to be a window cleaner and asked for payment.
He was given some cash, but returned later asking for more cash. This time he went into her home and asked for more money which he was given before he left.
