AN online fraudster sold a wristwatch worth £100 to a pensioner for more than £2,500.

Harry Herbert, from Lymm, advertised the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Chronograph for sale on a classified advertisement website – flogging it for a total of £2,650 to his 67-year-old victim in March.

But jewellery stores later valued the watch at around £100, and confirmed that a supposed certificate of authenticity given by the 23-year-old conman was also fake.

Herbert had earlier been told by another jewellery store that the watch was a fake back in 2017.

He admitted fraud at Warrington Magistrates Court and was ordered to pay his victim £2,700 in compensation.

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Magistrates also ordered him to serve a nine-week curfew and told him to pay £85 in court costs plus an £85 victim surcharge.