Jon Oliver told his young fiance he was going out to pick up a new car – then never came back. Oliver was a 38-year-old British Airways pilot with a £30 million trust fund. He was renovating his £10.5 million townhouse in Notting Hill and planning to buy a holiday home on millionaires’ row in Sandbanks, Dorset. He designed his own Rolls-Royce at a garage in Mayfair and invited friends from a glamorous Soho set to his stag do in America and wedding at the top of the Shard.
But it was all a lie. In fact, “Jon Oliver” was Jody Francis Oliver, an unemployed 45-year-old with a wife and three children, from the Welsh borders.
Today, The Sunday Times can reveal he was a
© Times Media Limited 2023.
Registered in England No. 894646. Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, SE1 9GF.