Blind man scammed out of 185,000 by fraudster who bullied him | UK News [Video]

A blind man was forced to hand over £185,000 of inheritance from his late mother to a fraudster who persistently bullied him for four years.

Mark Best, a visually impaired piano tuner, was subjected to a shocking ordeal at the hands of cruel sales director Mark Stanner.

Stanner, 42, led a heartless operation in which he duped Mr Best, 55, into believing he owed money for promoting his business services online. 

His grim tactics included intimidating Mr Best with texts, phone calls and emails demanding money, as well as aggressive threats from people claiming to be debt collectors or the police.

He also warned Mr Best that bailiffs would be visiting his property ‘within the hour’ to seize possessions and change the locks if he didn’t pay up.

Mr Best, who was said to have been ‘played like a violin’, borrowed thousands of pounds from friends and was even forced to evict his own uncle from the house his mum …