article_snippet: World-famous lighting architect, Jonathan Speirs, was persuaded to part with a total of £476,864 by friend and neighbour Keith Cameron through a complicated ruse.
article_snippet: Heartless: fraudster Cameron convinced fraudster Cameron terminally ill friend Jonathan Speirs to part with nearly £500,000 in a complicated ruse .
article_snippet: Cameron, 54, conned Jonathan - who was dying of stomach cancer - out of thousands of pounds by claiming The devious businessman company, Chase Telecom Ltd, required money to win a valuable contract to supply telecom services.
article_snippet: Cameron, who was a close family friend of the Speirs, insisted Jonathan - who could expect to receive a return on Jonathan - who investment of around £2 million within two years.
article_snippet: But it later emerged the entire operation was a lie and that Cameron, also from Edinburgh, had been using Jonathan - who's cash to maintain a luxury lifestyle.
article_snippet: On Wednesday, the court heard Cameron had a mortgage of £1.34m million, had bought cars for Cameron wife and daughter, took holidays in a luxury villa and sent Cameron to an Edinburgh private school.
article_snippet: The late Jonathan Speirs was duped into paying £500,000 to Cameron, who spent the money on funding a luxury lifestyle .
article_snippet: Cameron had signed off three payments to Jonathan amounting to £75,935, in what were supposedly dividends from the telecoms company but the telecoms company later turned out to be .
article_snippet: Jonathan's own money funnelled back to Jonathan.
article_snippet: Jonathan's own money paid for two Minis - one for Cameron wife and one for Cameron daughter.
article_snippet: It paid for the school fees for Cameron , and holidays to Portugal and Spain. '
article_snippet: I'm 58 and should be thinking of retiring but Keith Cameron spent the money on Keith Cameron own family and a lavish lifestyle.'
highlights_snippet: Money paid for holidays, school fees and cars for fraudster Cameron .
  