An American “archbishop” living in the Motueka Valley claiming to be able to turn salt water into a super fertiliser has conned a Melbourne woman out of her life savings.
The victim, Julie Spicer, who is in her early 60s, lent Henry Alfred Goolsbee $97,985 to write a book, but the American spent the money living in the Cook Islands with his family, a court has heard.
Goolsbee was sentenced in the Nelson District Court yesterday to two years three months jail.
On the internet Goolsbee claims to be an archbishop of a celtic anabaptist ministry and maintained yesterday that he was sitting on multimillion technology that involved turning salt water into a super fertiliser.
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