Yet another victim of callous Bristol conman Michael Wike has come forward and told how she was swindled out of thousands of pounds from her late husband's life insurance.

Patricia Boyce, 67, used her beloved Royston's insurance to pay off business debts in the late Nineties, but the money ended up lining devious Wike's pockets.

When the Boyce's kitchen business in Broad Walk got into financial difficulties, the family was left with a £15,000 debt. Wike had become their business accountant and told Mrs Boyce and her son Neil that a £6,000 cheque would satisfy insolvency firm Byrne Associates.

But the Boyces never saw the money again. And when other victims of Wike's dodgy dealings surfaced, he was jailed for more than a year.

As previously reported, the 55-year-old was at Bristol Crown Court again last week and locked up for five years after pilfering £300,000 from his friends' and clients' accounts.

Mrs Boyce, of Craydon Road, Stockwood, said: "I think he's low-life, real low-life. I can't believe someone can be so spiteful and greedy.

"I can't believe he's been able to do it all over again. As soon as I saw his face in the Evening Post I recognised him straightaway."

Mr Boyce died from a heart attack in 1996 and Mrs Boyce ended up having to pay £24,000 to clear the business debts. None of the money was ever recovered from Wike.

She explained: "My husband had been paying off Byrne Associates, but he died. Mike Wike was introduced to me and he said 'if you give me a cheque for £6,000 I'm sure they will accept it'.

"The months went by and we got a letter from them saying they hadn't received our offer and that we should contact Mike Wike.

"Of course, nothing ever happened, he went to jail and we never got the money back. He'd stolen money from other people and I heard he'd even been in jail before that.

"I ended up having to pay £18,000, including the legal costs, plus the £6,000 that we never got back."

Kitchen fitter Neil Boyce died aged 41 of mesothelioma. Mrs Boyce's daughters Donna, 43, and Lisa, 41, have never forgiven Wike for what he did.

She added: "If my husband was alive I think he would have found him out and probably knocked his head off."

Despite being disqualified as an accountant for his previous misdemeanours, Wike, of Combe Dingle, carried on advising clients on tax rebates and investments through his unlimited firm. He built up a reputation at the Hope and Anchor pub in Shirehampton, which he went on to run. But when his own debts spiralled out of control he ended up stealing.

Included in the 16 offences he admitted, he stole about £200,000 of life savings belonging to Alan and Susan Thompson, from Kingswood, and about £40,000 from his son's long-term partner Lucy Allnutt, 25.

Wike went missing in early 2008 and was eventually caught by Mr Thompson in a citizen's arrest in St Jude's on June 16.

Victims of the conman have been told there is very little chance they will ever get their money back.