'Gifted con artist' jailed for duping woman she met on Plenty of Fish into relationship by pretending to be male convicted of near-identical deception

Blade Silvano, 44, was jailed for more than ten years in 2023 after setting up a fake dating profile on Plenty of Fish before using 'deceit and lies' to convince her victim she was a man.

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