Adam Moore-Lynch promised to sell on clients’ high-value watches for a fee – but instead kept the cash.

A watch dealer who defrauded his victims out of more than £1 million has been jailed for just over five years.

Adam Moore-Lynch ran Manchester Watch Hub based on King Street in the city centre and promised to sell on clients’ high-value watches while taking a seller’s cut.

Instead, the 38-year-old, from St Andrew’s Crescent, Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire, sold the watches, some worth up to £120,000, and kept the money for himself, with total losses of around £1.2 million.

One watch he took and kept the cash for was a Rolex Daytona timepiece worth £120,000.

The defendant, who pleaded guilty to fraud, converting criminal property and carrying out a business with intent to defraud cre

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