Dani Dyer's conman ex Sammy Kimmence ordered to pay back £55,000

Dani Dyer’s ex Sammy Kimmence, 25, is ordered to pay back £55,000 after scamming elderly victims – by handing over clothes, Louis Vuitton bags and designer trainers

• Sammy Kimmence was jailed for three-and-a-half years after posing as investor
• He duped Peter Martin, 91, & Peter Haynes, 81, by letting him ‘invest’ their cash
• But conman actually spent the lot on expensive restaurants, hotels and clothes 

Sammy Kimmence, pictured, who was jailed for more than three years after posing as a financial investor, will start paying the debt by handing over £5,099-worth of valuables 

Dani Dyer’s disgraced ex-boyfriend was today ordered to pay almost £55,000 by handing over clothes, Louis Vuitton bags and designer trainers after he scammed two elderly men out of £34,000.

Sammy Kimmence, who was jailed for three-and-a-half years last month after posing as a financial investor, will start paying the debt by handing over £5,099-worth of valuables including various fashion items, jewellery and a £699 personal number plate.

Three pairs of valuable trainers made up the ‘vast bulk’ of the sum, a court was told today.  

Kimmence duped Peter Martin, 91, and Peter Haynes, 81, by persuading the vulnerable pensioners to let him to invest their money for them and then splashed out on expensive restaurants, hotels and clothes.

He will now have to pay Mr Martin £3,926 – which will go to his estate as he has passed away – and Mr Hayne £1,173 within the next three months.

The rest will be paid as soon as he earns money once he is released from prison.

Portsmouth Crown Court today heard the total figure, £54,859.22, amounted to how much Kimmence had made from conning the two men.

The sum was split into three parts – £35,896.46 for the five charges, £13,863.26 of cash deposited in his Lloyds and Santander account and £5,099 of assets in his house.

Kimmence was ordered to hand over three pairs of designer trainers – a pair of Dior B22 sneakers, costing £825; a pair of Louis Vuitton Monogram runners costing £725; and Nike Jordan ‘Black Cat’ shoes costing £600 – and his number plate, which cost £699, read ‘KM11SAM’.

He also had to hand over his Louis Vuitton monogram hoodie which cost £1,250 and a £1,000 Cartier love ring.

Dani (pictured with Kimmence and a designer bag) holds up a sonogram picture of their baby

Dani Dyer and Kimmence, pictured with a luxury designer bag he is having to give up to repay his debt

The couple (pictured together) split after Kimmence was sentenced earlier this summer

Left, Peter Martin died penniless and with ‘barely enough money to eat’ after being scammed out of his life savings. Right, Peter Haynes, who has Alzheimer’s

He was in a relationship with Love Island star Dani Dyer, with whom they have a son, Santiago, pictured together

The brother of one of the victims of Dani Dyer’s boyfriend welcome his prison sentence saying: ‘He is a scumbag who deserves no sympathy.’

Sammy Kimmence wept in court as he was jailed for three and half years for scamming two elderly men out of their life savings.

Brian Martin, whose elder brother Peter was one of the victims, told MailOnline he had nothing but contempt for Kimmence.

He said: ‘This man got everything he deserved, and I am glad that he is now in prison and will not be able to ruin any more lives.

‘What he did was despicable. And as for his tears in court, they were just crocodile tears. His only concern was for himself.’

Brian, 87, told how last time he saw his 91-year-old brother he was a broken man having had his life savings stolen by Kimmence.

‘He barely had enough money to eat. All of his money had been taken and he was in a lot of debt. He was just living month to month.

‘He was a very quiet, private man and did not want to talk about what happened. Peter did not tell me what had happened as he would have been too embarrassed. He just suffered in silence.

‘I remember being so shocked the last time I saw him when he came to our house.

‘He was very frail and I think just so embarrassed by the situation he found himself in. He lived on his own and so fell for everything this man said. He trusted him.

‘I do believe the stress of it all was in someway to blame for his death. I know he would have liked to have been here to see Kimmence sent to jail.’ 

Brian, from Portsmouth, Hampshire, said they had decided not to attend the trial as they found it too traumatic.

They were telephoned by the detective in charge of the case this morning to tell them Kimmence was given a 42 month jail term.

Brian said:’ To take advantage of such an elderly man is despicable. I think the term scumbag would be appropriate.

‘He only had one thought and that was to take as much money as he could.

‘I feel sorry for his partner Dani Dyer and his son. They are blameless in this and I hope they will not be tarnished by his crimes.

Prosecutor Mike Mason told the hearing: ‘It is made up of a personalised number plate, worth £699, and jewellery and clothing, making it up to £5,099.

Judge Timothy Mousley QC added: ‘It is some shoes – the vast bulk are three pairs of trainers.’

Kimmence stood motionless in the dock, only speaking to say his name. He wore a mask and a navy blue jumper and dark tracksuit bottoms.

The victims had been clients of Kimmence when he worked as Senior Trader at Equine Global Sports Limited, a company which subsequently went into liquidation.

The company received money from customers which it would use to place bets on horse races, on their behalf.

After this company ceased trading, Kimmence contacted two of his elderly former clients and pretended he would continue investing their money in the same way, but in fact used it to fund his lavish lifestyle, paying for restaurant bills and booking a hotel in Ibiza.

He also spent their cash in nightclubs and on a personalised number plate for his Mercedes, leaving one victim ‘living on the breadline’.

Kimmence, who had denied all the charges before a last minute change of plea, was last month sent to prison for five counts of fraud, totalling £33,919.

During the trial prosecutor Mike Mason said: ‘This was a very unpleasant fraud against two men who Mr Kimmence deliberately targeted. He targeted them because they were old, they were vulnerable and somewhat isolated.

‘This wasn’t something he migrated into from a friendship. This was something he planned.’

The court heard Kimmence travelled to visit Mr Haynes and Mr Martin at their homes several times as he ‘groomed them’.

Documents sent to the victims by Kimmence included fake company names and an ‘entirely fabricated’ Gambling Commission number.

These were riddled with errors, including ‘miscalculated balances’ and a misspelling of Kimmence’s own name.

Mr Mason said these letters demonstrated ‘some pre-thinking’ as the letters ‘set these men up to believe this was an established, credible business’.

Kimmence convinced Mr Martin to give him his internet banking password, credit card and bank card.

Mr Mason said: ‘In other words he ceded financial control to Mr Kimmence. It is akin to the fox getting a key to the chicken pen.

‘Mr Martin considered him a friend right up until he died, which tells us a little about the energy he put in to grooming these old men.’

Mr Martin’s money was used by Kimmence on holiday in Ibiza, in an Essex nightclub and to shop at Waitrose as well as paying car payments for his flashy Mercedes A-class with a personalised number plate.

His statement was read out in court, which said: ‘I have been left at times very stressed over having now given £1,000s to Sammy, who I thought was investing it for me.

‘This whole process with Sammy has affected my trust in people.’

The model is the daughter of EastEnders actor Danny Dyer, pictured above with the couple

Dani Dyer shot to fame on Love Island in 2018, winning the ITV2 show with Jack Fincham

Before, Dyer had been in a relationship with Kimmence but struck up a relationship with Jack Fincham in the villa before going on to win the popular reality show

‘I’m an awful human being’: Kimmence sends grovelling letter offering to repay victims – after one dies  

Kimmence sent a grovelling letter to the judge before he was sentenced in which he apologised for being an ‘awful human being’.

The conman claimed he was a ‘completely different person’ and was ‘driven by ego’ when he targeted his two elderly victims.

The letter read: ‘I would like to begin by apologising firstly for even having to write this letter to you. The crime I committed years ago was totally unacceptable and I take full responsibility for my actions which have led me to where I am now.

‘When these crimes were committed, I was a completely different person, I was a youngster, driven by ego, opinions and looking like something I wasn’t.

‘I looked up to people who I believed were successful which in reality they were far from it [sic].

‘I understand that nothing will ever be able to justify my actions but what I can tell you is that I have come a long way from the person I was.

‘I cannot erase the memory of how much of an awful human being I was, I can only learn from it which I feel like I have done over the years.

‘I understand the impact that my actions have had, not only financially but emotionally, and the detriment that this has had on both Mr Haynes and Mr Martin and their families as well.

‘Recently becoming a father myself, I now realise how much of an impact this can have not only one person [sic] but a family unit as a whole and I am ashamed to have put those families through everything that I have. For this, I am truly sorry.

‘I have since been saving up money in order to repay all the monies lost to both Mr Haynes and Mr Martin, which I fully intend to do.’

The court heard that, five days after Kimmence was arrested, he messaged Mr Martin to say ‘stop the investigation’.

Mr Haynes, who had a career in the RAF before his retirement, said in a statement: ‘In one go all the savings I have accrued over my working life were wiped out. My bank account shows zero.

‘I have been sick with worry at my situation and have lost a lot of weight from stress and worry.

‘It is no exaggeration to say I was left living on the breadline because of his actions and dishonesty.’

Mitigating, Craig Harris said: ‘There was no need for [Kimmence] to groom these two gentlemen.

‘The trust was already in place because he had already managed the accounts they had at Equine.

‘I accept that advantage has been taken… of a relationship and the trust that has built up in it over a period of time.’

He added that Kimmence had been ‘lambasted in the press and on social media’ because ‘His girlfriend, through no fault of his own, is relatively well known through social media and TV programmes’.

But Judge Timothy Mousley QC gave him 30 months imprisonment for his duping of Mr Martin and 12 months for the fraud against Mr Haynes. He must serve at least half of that sentence.

He said: ‘You defrauded two men of significant sums of money, both were elderly gentlemen, neither was a wealthy man.

‘Whilst these men trusted you, you used their money to fund your lifestyle.

‘This was a significant abuse of trust.’

The court heard Kimmence, who announced the birth of his and Dyer’s baby son Santiago in January, used one of his victims’ bank cards to withdraw more than £1,200 for himself and also racked up credit card charges of more than £1,300.

He also admitted to getting Mr Martin to transfer him £22,912 on one occasion, and £400 on another. He conned Mr Haynes in a similar way to the tune of £7,927.

Mr Martin, who lived in Havant, Hants, sadly died in November last year aged 91 while Mr Haynes suffers from Alzheimer’s.

The court previously heard how Mr Haynes was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s last year and has moved from Okehampton, Devon, to live closer to his daughter in Leeds.

Simon Clark, CPS Wessex Senior Crown Prosecutor, said: ‘Kimmence acted despicably when he duped his former clients in to believing that he had set up a new company with which they could safely invest their money.

‘The CPS used witness statements, financial records, receipts and mobile phone evidence to prove that Kimmence had not invested a single penny of the thousands of pounds he had fraudulently obtained from his victims.’

Dani Dyer, who is the daughter of EastEnders star Danny Dyer, shot to fame on Love Island in 2018.

Before, she had been in a relationship with Kimmence but struck up a relationship with Jack Fincham in the villa before going on to win the popular reality show.

The 24-year-old rekindled her romance with Kimmence shortly after but split following his sentencing in July, despite recent rumours that the pair may be getting married in the near future.

Sources told OK! Magazine earlier this month: ‘She’s always wanted that happy family dynamic so she’d love to find happiness with someone new.’

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