Romance fraudster victim ‘felt world fall apart’

A woman defrauded out of thousands of pounds after dating an online romance fraudster has said she “felt her world falling apart” after discovering she was pregnant with his child.

Peter Gray, 35, was sentenced to 56 months in prison in February for defrauding four women out of £80,000.

He was also given restraining orders in relation to those victims.

Gray found the women on Tinder and would date them to develop close connections that helped him commit offences for his own personal financial gain.

Hannah began a relationship with him but said she was “manipulated” into staying and later found out she was pregnant.

After meeting Grey, her sister Natalie looked into his past and discovered Peter was a con man.

Natalie said: “You see these things happening on TV. You never believe it’s going to happen to you but believe me it can.”

Hannah told BBC Radio 5 Live Drive about the moment her family told her what they’d learnt about Gray: “I just thought, ‘how am I supposed to deal with this?’.”