US EditionFraudster who dubbed himself 'Kardashian of Cheshire' jailed over designer handbag scam
- In April 2025, Judge Simon Berkson sentenced Jack Watkin, 26, at Chester Crown Court for large-scale fraud and possessing indecent child abuse images.
- Watkin's offending came to light after his arrest as part of a Cheshire Police sting targeting a luxury handbags scam between 2021 and 2024.
- He defrauded six people, including friends and his father, by using fake designer handbag investments to finance an extravagant lifestyle.
- The court heard he stole over £200,000, including £98,500 from Hannah Jaques and £43,800 from Christine Colbert, and possessed more than 600 indecent images, with 274 in category A and 68 ‘moving’ images.
- Watkin was ordered to serve four-and-a-half years for fraud, an additional 18 months consecutively for the child abuse images, and remain on the sex offenders’ register and under a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years.
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A man who was described as a "Kardashian from Cheshire" was sentenced to fraud imprisonment after he sent more people with luxury people to BBC. Jack Watkin, aged 26 years old, has funded Instagram's life-style by cheating companies and people with over 200,000 sterline readings.
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