A fraudster has admitted posing as a police officer to steal money from elderly and vulnerable people in Kent.

Oscar Yeboah, 26, worked as part of an organised criminal group which targeted people in their 80s and 90s.

He would call his victims, pretending to be a police officer or bank official reporting supposedly fraudelent activity.

They were then tricked into handing over bank cards they were told had been compromised.

Yeboah, of Woodford Avenue in Ilford, Essex, appeared at Maidstone Crown Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud through false representation between December 2010 and March 2011.

It followed an investigation by detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate into more than 20 incidents in Kent, mostly in the Maidstone and Gravesend areas.

Yeboah was remanded in custody and will be sentenced at a later date.