Britain's once most-wanted conman has ruined his mother's marriage and life, she claims.
Mark Acklom scammed his ex-girlfriend out of her life savings.
His mum, Diana, claims he's wrecked her family's fortunes too.
The 72-year-old has two jobs working as a receptionist and PA, the Mirror reports .
A teenage Acklom splurged on his father's American Express card and convinced a building society to give him a mortgage of almost half a million pounds.
His family have since moved from their modern family home in London, to rented accomodation.
Lunching at the Savoy and charting private jets put his dad Brian thousands in the red and he also stole hundreds of thousands from his brothers.
His parents ended up having to sell their home to pay off his debts and the strain of his deceit destroyed their marriage.
Despite the mother-of-five being left in a precarious financial situation, she hopes her son can be helped.
She told Daily Mail: "The only pension I have is my state pension. I had a house in Dorset which had to go in the divorce settlement.
"The only thing I've got is this house which is mortgaged anyway, so I have to work five days a week at 74.
"Why should I be working at this age? But he doesn't think about things like that.
‘I’ve always said he has got a personality disorder. I worried about him even when he was three. It was never diagnosed. I have no clue if it had been diagnosed whether it would have made a difference."
Serial conman Mark Acklom, 45, has been jailed for five years and eight months after pleading guilty at Bristol Crown Court to five counts of fraud for duping divorcee Carolyn Woods, 61, who lost her life savings.
Speaking previously Carolyn revealed how the charming conman had whisked her off her feet with helicopter rides and visits to celebrity hairdressers and even claimed he was working undercover for MI6 in Syria.
She said: “I was convinced he was the real-life version of the fictional hero Jack Bauer - a charming and charismatic maverick who bent all the rules for the greater good.
“He very quickly had me completely under his control. One of my daughters thought I had been brainwashed.”
But as soon as he entered her life and the money began to dry up he began appearing less and less.
On one occasion he explained his absences by claiming he had been 'kidnapped' by MI6, who wanted him to return to Syria, and was in a military hospital in Athens with gunshot wounds to his arm.
In May 1990, when at the age of just 16 he convinced the Leeds Permanent Building Society he was a 25-year-old stockbroker on £214,000 a year.
They gave him a £466,000 mortgage for a £516,000 executive home in Dulwich, south London, not far from one owned by Margaret Thatcher.
Diana said Acklom, then 18 years old, had managed to use his insurance consultant father's American Express gold credit card to spend on shopping, partying and left with a hefty bill to the family.
At the same time Acklom began devising elaborate swindles, one of which involved duping former teacher Ian Markland out of £13,000 for a “surefire” investment in a fictitious film company.
After serving time in Feltham he was released in 1993 and by the late 1990s washed up in Spain on the notorious Costa del Crime.
Again it was not long before he was in trouble with the law and in 1998 he was jailed for two years for a fraud involving unpaid hotel rooms.
Then in 2004 he was arrested in Benidorm after passing himself off as the head of a retail consortium, even though he did not own the land he claimed he would build on.
In 2008 he managed to persuade two Spanish brothers to pay him £200,000 as a deposit on three swish apartments in Chelsea that he did not own either.
Dad Bryan Acklom said after his son’s first court appearance: “I don’t think he realises what he has done. I don’t think he feels anything.”
Acklom’s mum Diana added: “We have suffered hell. It was us who reported him to the police and it was the hardest decision we have ever had to make.”
He was believed to be on the run on the Costa del Sol in Spain but was eventually tracked down Zurich, Switzerland.
Despite Acklom was given a five-year sentence in jail, mum Diana believed he will 'start again when he comes out'.
"He never learns, it just goes on and on - you can put him away but it's like a never-ending rollercoaster. When he comes out, it will all start again."
