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A convicted conman who defrauded a woman on Tinder has now been blocked from another online dating app.
Andrew W C Tonks Thomson, now living in Auckland, said he was absolutely not on dating app Bumble looking for someone to take money from.
He says he’s looking for love and a second chance.
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“I’m interested in getting on with my life. I’m lonely and stuck in New Zealand due to the [parole] board’s decision to keep me here,” Thomson said.
Thomson, who has also gone by the names of Andrew Tonks Thomson and Andrew Charles Tonks was sentenced in the Invercargill District Court in March 2020 for theft in a special relationship, namely $300,000, two charges using a forged document, two charges of managing a company while prohibited and making a false statement with a shareholder consent form in 2019.
The offending related to dealings in Queenstown.
At the time, one of the victims read her impact statement in court, and said he preyed on her “kind, empathetic nature to con me.”
After the pair met on the dating app Tinder, they developed a relationship.
He was sentenced to two years’ and four months’ jail and was released by the New Zealand Parole Board January 2021.
“I’m hoping to meet someone who might be able to see that you can change from a lesson and move on. I don't want to put anyone through the grief I put [his victim] through,” he said this week.
A woman contacted Stuff in the past few days to say alarm bells began to ring when she went on a date with Thomson, after connecting with him on Bumble.
Stories he told about his past didn't quite make sense to the woman, and she started checking him out further online.
That’s when she discovered his criminal convictions.
The woman said Thomson claimed to work in counter-terrorism.
She wants people to know that Thomson is out of prison, and she alerted the dating app of his background.
Stuff asked Thomson about his counter-terrorism work, but he declined to comment on it.
'There's just no comment that can be made, there's nothing there. There're two sides to every story and I can't comment on that,” Thomson said.
He was absolutely not on Bumble looking for someone to take money from, he said.
“There was never any other intent. It's impossible to get on with life with the history I've got and the articles I've got and I guess this is reminding me that I'm not in a position to be dating, I just need to keep my head down and go home.'
Home is Tasmania, where his family is waiting to support him, he says.
Bumble told Stuff it used information shared from the woman to ensure the individual flagged can never use its platform again.
Thomson’s Tinder victim that he defrauded is now producing a podcast called Conning the Con but declined to speak further about Thomson’s latest appearance on a dating app.
He sought parole and part of the release conditions were not to possess or use any electronic device capable of accessing the internet, other than a device that had been approved in writing by a probation officer.
He was also to disclose to a probation officer, at the earliest opportunity, details of any intimate relationship which commences, resumes or terminates.
The parole board decision says Thomson’s first preference would be to be released back to Australia because much his support network is there.
The decision says “the board made it clear to Mr Thomson at an early stage that it was not particularly receptive to that concept, as effectively the New Zealand Probation Service would have no jurisdiction or control over his release conditions.”
The board stated Thomson had made good progress in prison, completed courses and recognised where he had gone wrong in his decisions and his thinking, and the damage that he had caused to his victim – not just financially.
Thompson told Stuff he had no reasonable answer for his 2019 offending.
'I was in a bad headspace, living beyond my means, and I was trying to make a name for myself in New Zealand. Trying to be a big player I suppose.”
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Thomson said he knew he could be a cautionary tale.
'I have romantic notions of maybe one day having a family of my own, but that's probably impossible with my history unfortunately. I'm just going to have to change my tact on that, just find happiness by myself.”
He has no plans to change his name(s) as he said it would be disrespectful to his family.
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“We’re just going to have to learn how to deal with it ... the Google searches are the killer.”