A PROLIFIC conman who got cash out of people claiming he was collecting for a children's martial arts club is facing jail.

Norman 'Knuckles' Jones, 57, struck this time in Earby, alleging that he was collecting for a jujitsu club and netted £7.

Last year he was sent to prison after claiming he was collecting for a blaze victim.

Burnley Magistrates Court heard how Jones, a convicted murderer and football hooligan, used a collecting box and two identity cards in the scam.

Jones, of Earl Street, Colne, admitted three charges of fraud on January 11 and asked for four similar offences to be considered.

Magistrates told him the offences were serious enough for custody to be considered.

Jones, who had a heart attack after his last arrest, was bailed until March 19, for a pre-sentence report and was given unconditional bail.

In 2005 Jones was caught making bogus collections for children's charities in Clitheroe, Nelson and Blackburn and was jailed for just over a year.

Jones, a former leader of the Burnley Suicide Squad, is still the subject of a court order banning him from grounds for three years. The order was originally imposed in March 2002 and he was jailed in 2003 for flouting restrictions.

In 2005 he was convicted of breaching the order, while attending a Burnley versus Blackburn FA Cup tie at Ewood Park.

Magistrates decided not to jail him then but told him he was barred from attending matches for another three years.

He was barred from entering Burnley town centre or the vicinity of Turf Moor three hours before and after Clarets home games.