A fraudster who impersonated bank customers to steal their life-savings won’t pay back a penny because he only has 65p to his name. Stewart Mills, 64, of Islington , walked into Barclays branches around Central and East London armed with fake passports and driving licenses, convincing staff to let him change the beneficiaries on accounts so he could funnel away more than £200,000.

The scam worked by downloading the Barclays app onto an empty mobile phone, so Mills could login and pose as the customer. Four out of the nine frauds were successful, reaping £123,550. For the other five attempts, totalling £111,141, staff refused to give Mills access or he fled the branch fearing detection.

Mills, a retired Tube driver, was previously convicted of fraud and money laundering offences betwe

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