‘Dishonest parasite’ conman who had multiple affairs while raking in £370,000 by defrauding women, making fake VAT claims and getting a £50,000 Covid bounce back loan ‘with obscene ease’ is ordered to pay back just £37,000

• Jiro Wilson, 52 from Exeter, ordered to repay just £37k after defrauding women

A love rat conman who had multiple affairs and was into sex with swingers was branded a ‘dishonest parasite’ by a judge who jailed him for six years.

Yesterday the judge was told that Jiro Wilson’s crimes saw him benefit to the tune of £373,939 – but he was ordered to pay back just £37,230 from realisable assets.

Wilson ripped off four women to the tune of £46,000 in less than 18 months by promising them riches from his so called business venture.

He began relationships with them – several at a time – but also spent their investment money on escorts and swingers.

Wilson admitted defrauding the women as well as ripping off the taxman to the tune of £238,000 by fake VAT claims and a £50,000 bounce back Covid loan for his firm which was already defunct.

Love rat conman Jiro Wilson (pictured) who had multiple affairs and was into sex with swingers was branded a ‘dishonest parasite’ by a judge who jailed him for six years

Wilson used to rent part of a large country house (pictured) and the owner said Wilson bought flash cars and motor bikes

Wilson, 52, was jailed for a total of six years earlier this year – but was back in court for a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing.

Prosecutor Mary McCarthy said he set up a water company called Tor Water in Exeter, Devon, in 2017 without any funds to do so.

At one point he only had £4 in his bank but he preyed on trusting women whom he romanced and they began investing money into his firm.

One woman, a mum of two, gave him £20,000 from money she had inherited to help him start up the business – with promises of paying her back in two years.

Other women were sucked in by his smooth talking – and some of the victims fell for his charms and one lived with him for nearly seven years before she exposed his cheating after examining his phone.

Another woman who believed in his venture is said to have lost more than £200,000 but her losses were not included in the criminal charges against him.

Wilson, who kept saying he had money in a flat in Exmouth, Devon, which was repossessed, promised the victims shares in the business- but it was all lies and he spent their money on himself.

He used to rent part of a large country house and the owner said Wilson bought flash cars and motor bikes.

Landlord Mark Turner branded him a narcissist saying: ‘Nothing is his fault, he is completely feckless.’

At Exeter Crown Court, Wilson’s lawyer Warren Robinson said: ‘He was always upfront about being part of the swingers’ community.’

Wilson bought flash cars and motorbikes with the hundreds of pounds he defrauded

Wilson (pictured), 52, was jailed for a total of six years earlier this year – but was back in court for a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing

One victim, Amy Garwood, who had lived with him, is still paying off debts caused by him.

She said he spent cash on other women having numerous affairs and ‘spending money to see an escort’.

‘He was very manipulative and called me paranoid. I knew he was seeing other women but he always had an answer or an excuse. I was taken for an idiot.’

Judge David Evans said the women got together to bring a private prosecution against him following official indifference but the judge stopped the trial to get the CPS involved because of other wrongdoing by Wilson.

The judge called him a ‘dishonest parasite’ and awarded the women £500 each for exposing his lies.

The judge also slammed ‘how obscenely easy’ it was for Wilson to scam the State out of the Covid bounce back loan and scam the VAT money from HMRC.

Wilson was also banned from being a company director for 15 years because the judge said he was ‘utterly unfit’ to be one.

Ian Hackett, from the HMRC fraud service, said: ‘The behaviour of Jiro Wilson is deplorable, he used fraudulently obtained Government money to fund his personal lifestyle during the height of the Covid pandemic.’

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