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Dani Dyer’s boyfriend Sammy Kimmence cries in court as he is jailed for over two years for conning pensioners out of £34,000
Sammy Kimmence has been jailed (Picture: Solent)
Dani Dyer’s boyfriend Sammy Kimmence has been jailed for over two years for cheating two pensioners out of £34,000.
The 25-year-old was today sentenced at Portsmouth Crown Court, as the court heard that his actions left an RAF veteran ‘living on the breadline’ after being conned out of his life savings.
Kimmence wept in court as he was sentenced to 42 months in prison.
He had pleaded guilty to five counts of fraud for scamming two men out of £34,000 and his sentencing had previously been delayed twice.
Back in April, he changed his plea to guilty after initially denying the charges against him.
The court heard that the offences involved Kimmence taking money from two elderly men aged 90 and 80 between 2016 and 2018, claiming that he would invest the money through his company S&S Trading Ltd but failing to do so.
Four counts were for fraud against Peter Martin totaling nearly £26,000 and a fifth count totaling £7,927 against Peter Haynes. Martin has since died.
Sammy shares a son with Dani (Picture: Palace Lee/REX/Shutterstock)
Kimmence’s defence Craig Harris previously told the court his client is ‘seeking to reimburse the losses he has caused’.
Harris said: ‘He is a relatively young man of previous good character, the offences go back into his late teenage years.
‘This is a case that crosses the custodial threshold but might be within a range which I argue could be suspended.
‘Quite a lot has gone into this young man’s life in the last few years. He is seeking to reimburse the losses he has caused.’
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Kimmence previously dated Dani before she entered the Love Island villa in 2018, and the couple rekindled their romance in 2019 after Dani’s split from Jack Fincham.
The 24-year-old reality star, who is the daughter of EastEnders star Danny Dyer, welcomed their son Santiago in January.
A rep for Dani confirmed that she was still with her partner, saying: ‘She’s vowed to stand by him, he’s the father of her baby.’
