A conwoman who pocketed tens of thousands of pounds by illegally subletting a pensioner’s Salford flat and stealing valuables from homes while house-sitting has been jailed for five years.
Ariana Rose, 40, waged a “campaign of dishonest behaviour” over nearly a decade, using the money she made through fraud and theft to fund a “lavish lifestyle”, complete with designer clothing and expensive meals, a sentencing hearing at Southwark Crown Court heard on Thursday.
Rose, previously known as Sana Ali, was sentenced to five years in prison for multiple offences including theft, fraud, using a false tenancy agreement, and perverting the course of justice.
And Judge Nicholas Rimmer ordered her to pay more than £65,000 in compensation to her victims.
The judge told her: “Yours was a campaign of dishonest behaviour spanning nearly a decade, with offences in 2016, 2018, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
“The impact of your offences was considerable and it was extensive.
“I am left in no doubt that you caused your victims very real, serious upset and distress.”
Rose also used the proceeds from her crimes “to live a lavish lifestyle otherwise beyond your means”, Judge Rimmer said.
Between 2016 and 2018, Rose illegally sublet a two-bedroom flat in Salford Quays, Manchester, to three different people who believed landlord David Lederer had authorised her to do so, according to a prosecution summary of the crimes.
Using a bogus email address, she told tenants it belonged to the property owner, Mr Lederer, and used it to pressure tenants and discourage them from continuing to ask for their money back.
One of those tenants, Aoibheann Alliot, paid the defendant a total of £4,340 between October 2016 and March 2017.
Court documents showed Ms Alliot described Rose as “controlling and irrational”, refusing to let her have guests over and restricting the times at which she could use the kitchen or shower.
Rose received a total of £30,337 from apparent rental payments over the time she was living at Mr Lederer’s flat, the court was told.
Mr Lederer issued a notice of possession against Rose in August 2017, and she stopped paying rent.
She eventually moved out in June 2018, leaving the flat in “an untidy and dirty state”, with rubbish and clothing strewn around the property, numerous carrier bags from expensive boutiques, and a large amount of correspondence indicating that Rose was in debt.
Property administrator Caroline Tyrrell-Evans later launched a private prosecution against Rose after she occupied a flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, for 15 months between 2023 and 2025 – accruing £43,400 in rental arrears.
Rose vacated the flat in December 2025 and left it in a “filthy” state, the court was told.
She had also left “large amounts of evidence of lavish living” – including luxury carrier bags and a receipt dated in the defendant’s name for a £27 meal of lobster and champagne at Claridge’s.
Bank statements from her account also showed that, between January 2024 and June 2024, Rose received income totalling £7,400 in separate payments with the reference “rent” – suggesting she had also sublet the Ladbroke Grove property.
Rose also targeted properties through the house-sitting platform Trusted House Sitters, stealing valuables from homes in Warwickshire, Hampshire, Somerset, and Suffolk between July and October 2025.
Items stolen included a £15,000 tennis bracelet, a Mont Blanc pen, Christmas ornaments which the owner had been collecting for 27 years as part of her family tradition, Dom Pérignon and Pol Roger champagne, a ski jacket valued at £500, a Le Creuset pan, four war medals, and a CBE medal that had belonged to the owner’s grandfather.
Rose was arrested on November 5 2025 while driving a rented BMW, which contained designer sunglasses, cash, multiple items of jewellery, a Rolex, and a parcel containing fake US dollars.
In 2008, she was sentenced to four months in prison – suspended for 12 months for fraud after carrying out unauthorised transactions totalling £60,000 while working at Barclays Bank, the court heard on Thursday.
In 2011, then known as Sana Ali, she was jailed for 20 months for defrauding prospective tenants by advertising flats for rent online when she had no authority to do so.
She staged viewings and drew up fake contracts and took deposits and rental payments from three victims for £4,180, the prosecution summary sets out.
Judge Rimmer gave her three years to repay £65,692 in compensation.
By Mathilde Grandjean, Press Association
