'Babe, you need to ring the police and report your car as stolen - I've just run someone over': Lies of dating site love cheat

A conman left a hard-up mother of four with a £20,000 bill after he wooed her on a dating site before stealing her car - which contained her disabled daughter's wheelchair. Love rat Ben Robinson, 33, charmed the mum into a relationship then asked to borrow her leased Land Rover Discovery, falsely claiming he needed it to go to the shops to buy his son a birthday present.

Despite the £16,000 Discovery containing the wheelchair - plus special boots and splints belonging to the woman's daughter who has cerebral palsy - Robinson sold it on to 'criminal contacts'. He then came up with a string of excuses not to return the vehicle, including a false claim he was visiting his sick mother in hospital before texting the victim to wrongly claim he had smashed it up in a hit and run crash.

In a made-up message to the mother, Robinson blustered: "Babe. You need to ring the police and report your car as stolen. Say you just got home from your mum's house and found it gone.

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"You'll have to say the keys were next to the front door door and the thieves must have taken them through the letterbox. I've just run someone over and there was a big chase and I've run off. I'm sh**ting myself and I don't know what the f**k I'm gong to do. There's police everywhere."

The mum only realised she had been duped when she managed to contact the mother of Robinson's children to discover he had been lying all along about the vehicle - and about his relationship status with her. The NHS issued wheelchair was later recovered, but was missing a specially-made seat which had been moulded around her body and was