FOLLOWING on from your story on Saturday about Good Samaritan Pauline Siddons who was conned out of £70 by a man who flagged her down on the A34 sliproad at Botley claiming he could not buy any petrol, I’ve had the same situation.

I was driving towards Chislehurst to pick up my son from his Islamic School.

On the slip road, this man was waving his hands and I thought he had a problem so I may be able to help him.

Pauline Siddons and her daughter Sophie with a ring she was given in exchange for £70 cash by a man at the side of the A34. He claimed he needed money to pay for petrol to get home.  

I stopped my car and he came to the passenger side and said he needed some money for petrol and that his card would not work at the petrol station.

He said: “By God, call me tomorrow, Sunday and I will send you double the money.”

So I gave him £20 – that’s all I had.

He said he wanted £30.

He left me his ring and business card and said: “I will send you the money and then send me the ring back.”

He said he was Turkish and a Muslim so I believed him.

I called the number and said I wanted to send the ring back but he hung up.

I emailed but it was a false address, and the ring turned out to be fake.

I feel sorry for Ms Siddons, she does a good deed and gets ripped off.

The police need to stop this guy as soon as possible.

I only gave him £20 and feel angry because he lied, but she lost £70 and money isn’t easy to come by in this day and age.

ABDUL RASHID

Mortimer Road

Oxford