A FORMER Powys man who already serving a sentence jailed for posing as a cruise ship captain to sell fake luxury holidays, will be sentenced for conning a man out of his money over a two-and-a-half-year period.

Jody Oliver, aged 45, pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation between June 14, 2016, and January 18, 2019, when he appeared in court on Friday (July 28).

The money given by victim David Hawkes was supposed to be used for legitimate expenses including bills for tax and litigation proceedings.

Serial fraudster Oliver was jailed for six years last August after duping his friends, their families and acquaintances out of around £300,000 by offering them knockdown prices for non-existent cruises.

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The former special police constable was also living a double private life and divided time between his wife in south Powys and his boyfriend in Newport on weekends before he was arrested at his parent's home in Presteigne in February 2019.

Oliver, who is serving at HMP Parc in Bridgend, was ordered by His Honour Judge Shomon Khan to appear in person for his sentencing hearing at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court on August 10.

Prosecutor Jim Davis told a court hearing on Friday, July 28, that it is "important for open justice to be seen to be done" for Oliver to appear in person to hear his sentence rather than through a video link from prison "particularly in a serious and complex case".