US podcaster who helped convict ‘Queen of the Con’ disappointed at short sentence

Johnathan Walton, who was a victim of Marianne Mair' Smyth, had helped UK authorities track her down

A US podcaster and author who helped UK authorities convict a woman derisively known as the Queen of the Con" of defrauding a group of Northern Irish mortgage advice customers has expressed disappointment in her being sentenced on Friday to only four years in prison.

She scams or tries to scam everyone she meets, and she will never change," Johnathan Walton said in a statement after Marianne Mair" Smyth's sentencing closed the books on a transatlantic case against her.