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Lottery winner left poor and depending on advantages after fake roofers conned him out of his life reserve funds

Resigned assembly line laborer Stephen Cox scooped over £100,000 in the Lottery - however should now depend on advantages in the wake of succumbing to conmen

Fake roofers left a Lottery victor down and out subsequent to conning him out of his £80,000 life investment funds.

The unfeeling scalawags wheedled Stephen Cox, 63, into making no less than six treks to the bank to pull back tremendous wholes to settle the top of his semi-isolates home in Walkden.

Be that as it may, they did no work and took essentially the majority of Stephen's investment funds.

The resigned assembly line laborer, who lives alone, won £101,000 on the Lottery in 2003 and had carried on with an agreeable life until the conmen struck.Now he depends on advantages, has pre-pay meters for his gas and power and has been compelled to wipe out his Sky Sports membership.

He told the M.E.N: "Crushed isn't the word. It's influenced me truly gravely. They are b******s!

"I've been in clinic twice. The first run through was the point at which I experienced difficulty relaxing. The second time I simply keeled over in the house. I put it down to what happened. I couldn't adapt.

"I ought to have twigged in any case however it's past the point of no return now. I have a craving for crying."

He said he was 'that humiliated' he kept the difficulty mystery until he trusted in a neighbor who induced him to call the police.

The two rascals initially thumped on his entryway in April or May yet Stephen instructed them to 'overlook it' when they let him know his rooftop required work in view of clammy.

In any case, the pair wouldn't take no for an answer and pressurized the householder into consenting to pay £60,000 for the 'work'.

Amid the following two months they carried Stephen to the Nationwide and Halifax banks in Walkden in their white van so he could pull back tremendous entireties of cash totalling near £80,000, his life funds. No work was ever done on his rooftop.

The men encouraged Stephen to tell bank staff he was 'purchasing a race horse'.

"They were so persuading," he said.

He included: "They went into the space and said 'It's a touch sodden in here' and cited me £60,000 for the machine to dry it out. I said overlook in regards to it. In any case, they continued mithering me, contacting constantly. They needed a £10,000 store."

Presently police have discharged e-fit photos of the two conmen, one who called himself Simon and wore glasses.

One of the scalawags is portrayed as blended race, 5ft 6in tall, had short dark hair and stubble all over.

The second man, who was available when the cash was given over, is said to be white, in his mid 30s, up to 5ft 10, thin, clean shaven, had dark blue eyes and a pointed jaw.

He generally wore glasses and said he was called