David Overton, from Manchester, pretended to be a sweet sugar daddy to then-18-year-old Anna Ryan, from Bedford, and promised to treat her like a princess

A 'sugar baby' has told how she was conned out of £5,000 by a fraudster who pretended to be a Lamborghini-driving mine-owning stock market dealer.

David Overton, from Manchester, pretended to be a sweet sugar daddy to then-18-year-old Anna Ryan, from Bedford, and promised to treat her like a princess.

He claimed to be a man called James Walsh, from Kensington in London, who earned £50million a year and had offices in Dubai and Edinburgh.

But after wooing the unsuspecting Miss Ryan, with his Chelsea charm, the relationship ended when she found out he had conned her out of her £5,000 savings.

Miss Ryan was fed up of dating men her age that she would meet on nights out and wanted an older man to spoil her while she saved for travelling in Australia.

After a friend recommended she tried a 'sugar daddy' dating site, the sales worker signed up.

Almost instantly, she had a message from a James Walsh, and they began chatting online for around seven months before their first date.

He asked her to pick him up from a train station 'because his Lamborghini was in the garage with a flat tyre'.

She picked him up and he turned up in a three-piece suit and wore a gold Rolex, saying he had just returned from a business trip in Edinburgh.

He pretended to take 'work calls' throughout the car journey to the restaurant.

Overton paid for the meal in cash and they arranged to see each other again.

Miss Ryan was fed of dating men her age that she would meet on nights out and wanted an older man to spoil her while she saved for travelling in Australia. It on a dating website where she met James Walsh, who was really David Overton (right)

The pair continued to chat daily and then when they met again for a night of wining and dining, he said he was 'falling' for her and called Miss Ryan his girlfriend.

They went back to her house for a nightcap as her parents were away for the weekend and Overton began speaking about the life he planned for them - including clearing space in his Chelsea flat for her belongings and trips to Dubai.

He then mentioned a £5,000 court fine he had to pay due to a 'staff member being negligent' with his trading and that the banks had frozen his accounts.

After a friend recommended she tried a 'sugar daddy' dating site, the sales worker signed up

He shrugged it off, but the next morning things turned sour.

She told The Sun: 'I hurried him out to the car so I could get to work on time, when he suddenly snapped.

"I need the money now," he growled, his soft Chelsea accent disappearing and a gruff Manchester growl coming out.

'He started shouting at me, calling me selfish and demanding I transfer him five grand immediately or he would jump off a cliff.'

A mock-up of the texts Overton (in blue) sent to Miss Ryan (green) when she tried to get her money back

Feeling overwhelmed by what happened, Miss Ryan, who now lives in Dubai, searched his number on the internet and discovered he was not James Walsh and found a forum about a conman called David Overton, who scammed young women

Eventually Miss Ryan was persuaded to transfer £5,000 to Overton and he promised to pay her back.

Feeling overwhelmed by what happened, Miss Ryan, who now lives in Dubai, searched his number on the internet and discovered he was not James Walsh and found a forum about a conman called David Overton, who scammed young women.

She and eight other victims testified against him in February last year and Overton pleaded guilty to fraud and was jailed for 15 months.