Two Nigerian fraudsters, whose global £2.7m scam had deadly consequences for one family they mercilessly ripped off, were jailed today.
Police identified a total of thirteen victims all over the world, who each lost an average of £207,000, after the duo convinced them they were due an Australian lottery pay-out, inheritance, investment benefit or were sold non-existent heavy plant machinery.

Obinnam Nwokolo, 37, of 20 Chesworth Close, Erith, who amassed a valuable property portfolio in the UK and Nigeria, received six years and four months and Uchechhukwu Onuoha, 40, of Aspen Green, Erith, who entered this country on a student visa, received five years and two months.

Both pleaded guilty at Croydon Crown Court to conspiracy to defraud between October 1, 2008 and September 15 last year.
One of their victims, Betty McClellan, 62, of Hyde Park, Los Angeles was shot dead by her husband Hersey McClellan, 63, who then shot himself on June 20, 2010 after she wired £264,000 — blowing the couple’s hard-earned pension.

She transferred the sums to accounts controlled by fellow Nigerians Sergius Ene, 44, of 111 Rushden Gardens, Ilford and Osas Odia, 33, of 15 Windrush Court, Chichester Wharf, Erith, who both admitted conspiring to launder criminal property.

Ene, who received sixteen months in March for a £27,000 Euromilions lottery scam on an 83 year-old Northampton pensioner, was jailed for two years and eight months. for laundering £342,400.
The accountant, a former Haringey Council housing benefit officer, drove a Mercedes with a personalised ‘ENE’ number plate. He is currently appealing deportation and it was revealed the mother of his three children entered into a sham marriage with a French citizen of African origin just to stay in the UK


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Osas Odia, one of the fraudusters.

Na wa oo. Na these guy dey make my co-workers for here dey look me with one kin bad eye this morning.

nawa for this naija guys self,well i dont blame him na country no good.

nawa for dis boys o. RIP to d dead couple.

All that was screaming in my mind while reading this post was 'BLOOD OF JESUS' especially when I got to the part where that lady's husband shot her and then himself. Damn this guys have commited havoc. Wish the sentence could be more

NOT SURPRISED AT ALL. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE KNOWN FOR. ROBBERY, KIDNAPPING,RITUAL KILLING, SWINDLING, ETC. GOD SAVE NAIJA.

What a wicked , heartless people.

Yet, they will be worshipped during Christmas holidays when they drive their exotic cars and live in their opulent mansions all gained through theft, deception and outright evil.

Better to have little with peace than plenty and chaos.

justwise: 2010 after she wired £264,000

what in the name of gawd am i still doing in another man's country if i made that amount in 2010 ?

Haba,the sentence is toooo small for that kind crime that eventually led to the death of 2 people.

I hate to say this as an Igbo MAN, but the way my folk worship Money is now getting to a level of utter shame and disgust.

Na Shopana go kill this guys... Foolish people, Oyinbo no gree do business with person again....

Topic....
Lock them all up, let them rot in jail and confiscate all the ill-gotten assets!
Thieving vagabonds!

Unbelievable!

Their quest for money led to the loss of innocent lives. No sentence can ever bring those lives back. No sentence can compensate for what they did.

Despite all the money they stole, they were still unfulfilled which tells you that money does not buy happiness.

God will surely judge against them.

frosbel: I hate to say this as an Igbo MAN, but the way my folk worship Money is now getting to a level of utter shame and disgust.

Today, ur Igbo, tomorrow, ur British. Next year u fit be Togolese.

People keep shouting "the country isn't good", "our leaders are bad", "the hardships are to blame for crime". You would think that when they get to a "good" country, they would find honest means of livelihood. But no. They just continue in their dirty ways. This just shows that our problems aren't situational; they're psychological. If only we all could look past the excuses and blame and just focus on making it.

frosbel: I hate to say this as an Igbo MAN, but the way my folk worship Money is now getting to a level of utter shame and disgust.

about a day or two ago you said you are 100% British, how come you are igbo man today?

Sky-walker:
Na wa oo. Na these guy dey make my co-workers for here dey look me with one kin bad eye this morning.

No problem u sef look your co-workers with a badder eye

these bros dem f up gan...

20-25 years each would have done justice.

O.T.I.S:


what in the name of gawd am i still doing in another man's country if i made that amount in 2010 ?

u no go undeerstand sha

mallorca:
u no go undeerstand sha

I do, they want more.

O.T.I.S:


about a day or two ago you said you are 100% British, how come you are igbo man today?

Don't mind those people from that area of Nigeria..SMH