Jon Lindsay was a fiancé of Deirdre Rachid, later exposed as a conman whose machinations led to Deirdre being sent to Redford Prison. Deirdre met Jon at a Weatherfield singles night at the Warwick Hotel in May 1997. An airline pilot, he was charming, intelligent and handsome, and they began to see each other on a regular basis. She had been single since the death of her husband Samir two years earlier. He told her that he was a divorcee with a vindictive ex-wife who despised him and was now living in Devon with a bank manager.