A pensioner who went on the run after conning a blind widow out of her £2.2m estate has been jailed for 10 years.
Mogens Hauschildt, 72, posed as a financial advisor in a bid to strip his wealthy family friend of her home and £1m savings, leaving her penniless.
Hauschildt tricked Pamela Schutzmann, 91, into signing over her house in Hampstead, northwest London, by making her sign documents that she could not read due to her poor vision.
The Danish fraudster had won his victim's trust following the death of her husband in 1984 and after marrying her former au pair, Isleworth Crown Court heard.
His grip over her finances was so powerful that he was even able to access accounts set up by Mrs Schutzmann's late husband, a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Austria in the 1930s.
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12 Nov 2013Hauschildt went on the run after the allegations emerged and was tried and convicted in his absence of forgery, obtaining property by deception, money laundering and six counts of fraud in 2009.
He was finally captured by police in Germany in April this year after a European Warrant was issued for his arrest.
Judge Anna Guggenheim QC, said Hauschildt fleeced Mrs Schutzmann out of money that would have gone to three generations of her family.
"Mrs Schutzmann planned on leaving the wealth she inherited from her late husband's death to her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren - the house was one of those assets," she said.
The judge told the conman: "You were a determined and thoroughly dishonest confidence trickster.
"You presented yourself as knowledgeable and sophisticated in matters of finance and told her that you would protect her interests."
When the judge said Mrs Schutzmann was unaware of Hauschildt's previous conviction for fraud in his native Denmark, he became abusive in the dock.
He shouted at Judge Guggenheim: "I don't want to listen to this s
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