Overview

• Jack Watkin, 26, pleaded guilty in June to six fraud counts against four people totalling £420,000 at Chester Crown Court.
• He remains in custody at HMP Altcourse pending sentencing after Judge Simon Berkson warned he faces imprisonment.
• Prosecutors say he posed as a source for scarce Hermès and Birkin handbags to obtain payments and loans from friends, relatives and associates.
• Victims included a boutique owner who said she reimbursed a customer £17,000 and estimated losses around £100,000 tied to his actions.
• Two seized phones contained hundreds of indecent child images, leading to charges for making and possessing such material, while a further fraud count and two theft charges were left on file and police believe more victims may exist.