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A "despicable" crook posed as a police officer in a scam which fleeced a woman in her 90s of £27,000 in cash and jewellery. Sharmarke Ahmed pretended to be a detective when he called at the victim's home in Cheshire.

He played a key part in a courier fraud which targeted the victim who lives in the Malpas area.

The ruse began on March 5th this year 2025, when the victim received a call to her landline from a man who posed as a detective claiming to be from Chester.

The man told the victim there had been a gang of criminals operating in her area and if she had any cash or jewellery at home, he would arrange for a ‘police officer’ to come and collect it to keep it safe.

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