A CONMAN who failed to pass on donations he collected for an injured pilot has been jailed for 21 months.

Kevin Crellin, 52, took £550 from two people for a pilot who suffered severe burns in a serious accident.

He conned another woman out of £2,400 for flying lessons that did not happen.

Colin McCarraher, defending, told Oxford Crown Court this morning Crellin was suffering a heart condition that meant he could die at any moment.

But Judge Patrick Eccles said the public interest requires him to go to prison.

He sentenced Crellin, of Banbury Road, Sibford Gower, to 12 months' prison for three counts of fraud between February and July 2012, to run concurrently, plus nine months for breaching an earlier court order for a fraud offence to run consecutively.