DJ Carey went to extraordinary lengths in his campaign to dupe friends and family into handing over hundreds of thousands of euros.

He managed to cheat his way to almost 400,000 euros with claims about his health – mainly a battle with cancer – which involved him stuffing a phone charger cable up his nose to look like a medical cord and get people to give him money for treatment.

The former hurler for Kilkenny faked medical records and told his victims that he was in line for a one million euro payout from the HSE which he would use to pay them all back.

When police initially caught up with him and questioned him about his cancer claims, he said he concocted the story first in 2014 when in reality he was suffering from a heart condition. Images of him posted pretending to be in a hospit

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